Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It was only when I went to sixth-form college that I encountered boys.
Since my house burned down I now own a better view of the rising moon.
I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body.
I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Since we must all die sooner or later, let us enjoy life while we can!
We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.
Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.
The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.
What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.
I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.
Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.
Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.
I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.
Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.
Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.
In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
Do not waste your time on light, weak, milktoast ministries and books
Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.
Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.
From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.
I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever.
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?
Best thing in eird,I say for me, Is merry hart with small possessioun.
In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse
The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task in hand. . . .