Quotes by Authors - Page 88

Ultimately politics in a democracy reflects values much more than it shapes them.
Arnold A. Rogow
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry Adams
It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.
Harold Macmillan
When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC ) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them."
Anonymous
What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
Bernard Crick
We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.
Dean Rusk
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Mark Twain
Politics is a blood sport.
Aneurin Bevan
If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F Kennedy
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."
John F Kennedy
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher
The fact that a reactionary can sometimes be right is a little less recognized that the fact that a liberal can be. . . .
Joseph Gies
A Conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution the old one.
Douglas Jerrold
Never retract never explain never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.
Nellie McClung
Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.
Garry Wills
Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters using the voters' own money.
Richard J. Needham
One of the luxuries of a politican's life is that you see yourself as others see you.
Joe Clark
Whin a man gets to be my age he ducks political meetin's an' reads th' papers an' weighs th' ividence an' th' argymints - pro-argymints an' con-argymints an' makes up his mind ca'mly an' votes th' Dimmycratic Ticket.
Finley Peter Dunne
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his friends for his political life.
Jeremy Thorpe
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