Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If it's darkness we're having, let it be extravagant.
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.
A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
Your absence weighs more than someone else’s presence
A person always has a chance to protest this or that.
Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!
The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.
I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another
something has been said for sobriety but very little.
I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.
Only With words and people and love you move at ease.
Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness.
Others may sing the song. Others may right the wrong.
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.
My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb.
My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.
Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.
Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
The only way to be totally free is through education.
An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.
The career of an esthete was nothing I ever intended.
Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.
Egoist is someone who cares more for himself than me.
When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.
Walking around an early spring garden- going nowhere.