Quotes by Authors - Page 120

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree if you agree with him he is a statesman.
David Lloyd George
The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity Simplicity Sympathy and Serenity.
Emily Post
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
Livy
(A gentleman) is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
Fred Allen
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake sweet but not nourishing.
Nellie McClung
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer
I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Tennessee Williams
Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
Sydney Smith
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain
The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Fran Lebowitz
For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
Sylvia Plath
There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.
Rudyard Kipling
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
Phyllis McGinley
An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.
John Masefield
Poetry is a mug's game.
T.S Eliot
The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings phrases images which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.
T.S Eliot
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Christopher Morley
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Marianne Moore
No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T.S Eliot
When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.
T.S Eliot
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Robert Penn Warren
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer he approaches lucid ground warily like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
E B White
Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
Henry David Thoreau
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
T.S Eliot
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
G.K. Chesterton
Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.
Gerald Brenan
One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."
Anonymous
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved the Inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis
The reader who is illuminated is in a real sense the poem.
H. M. Tomlinson
With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe
All that is not prose passes for poetry.
George Grabbe
Poets have a license to lie.
Pliny the Younger
Most plagiarists like the drone have neither taste to select industry to acquire nor skill to improve but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.
Walter Colton
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
Oscar Wilde
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.
James Joyce
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
Life is not about significant details illuminated in a flash fixed forever. Photographs are.
Susan Sontag
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.
Susan Sontag
If you scratch a great photograph you find two things: a painting and a photograph.
Janet Malcolm
Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
Susan Sontag
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
James Froude
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Ambrose Bierce
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Sir Francis Bacon
One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Philosophy is doubt.
Michel de Montaigne
In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed that life can be fixed up. In Europe the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents.
Jonathan Miller
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.
T.S Eliot
All philosophies if you ride them home are nonsense but some are greater nonsense than others.
Samuel Butler
Anything that comes easy comes wrong.
Josephine Tessier
A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.
Lord Bowen
How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.
Anonymous
Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?
Dorothy Parker
Why don't you get a haircut you look like a chrysanthemum.
P.G. Wodehouse
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Charles Dickens
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
Hair is another name for sex.
Vidal Sassoon