Quotes by Authors - Page 195

My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
Thomas Fuller
It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.
Thomas Fuller
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Anonymous
A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.
Lord Bowen
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Watch what people are cynical about and one can often discover what they lack.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be.
Ambrose Bierce
Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sidney J. Harris
Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.
Mary Pettibone Poole
Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon
It is not linen you're wearing out But human creatures' lives.
Thomas Hood
Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.
Søren Kierkegaard
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because looked at through the myth all evidence supports that myth.
Edward de Bono
The mob has many heads but no brains.
Thomas Fuller
The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights actors and audiences - a figure dreaded and occasionally comic but never welcome never loved.
Robertson Davies
The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Anatole France
Any fool can criticize and many of them do.
Archbishop C. Garbett
If you are willing to take the punishment you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial the battle ugly is another point.
Lillian Hellman
The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.
Samuel Butler
To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
John Mason Brown
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar Wilde
His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.
E B White
It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.
Frank Kermode
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
Mark Twain
I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.
Jean Kerr
Henry James chews more than he bites off.
Mrs. Henry Adams
Constant indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
Kit Reed
Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.
John O'Hara
I had rather be hissed for a good verse than applauded for a bad one.
Victor Hugo
Said the pot to die kettle "Get away blackface."
Miguel de Cervantes
The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.
Mike Mansfield
When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F Kennedy
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.
Oscar Wilde
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Eric Hoffer
Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking he is not bigoted about it.
Damon Runyon
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.
Oscar Wilde
He only may chastise who loves.
Rabindranath Tagore
The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.
Henry Miller
He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse s'accuse.)
Anonymous
The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.
Thomas Fuller
And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
Anatole France
A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
Thomas Fuller
No man's credit is as good as his money.
E.W. Howe
If you are seeking creative ideas go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
Raymond Inman
Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.
Wilfred Peterson
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.
Eric Hoffer
Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives . . . most of the things that are interesting important and human are the results of creativity . . . when we are involved in it we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. )ust put forth a clear enough request and everything your heart truly desires must come to you.
Shakti Gawain
You were placed on this earth to create not to compete.
Robert Anthony
What another would have done as well as you do not do it. What another would have said as well as you do not say it. What another would have written as well do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
André Gide
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Dean William R. Inge
You lose it if you talk about it.
Ernest Hemingway
Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work - their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.
Marilyn Machlowitz
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
William Faulkner
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.
E.M. Forster
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Andrei Voznesensky