12 quotes found
Poet and playwright · English · 1907–2005
English poet and playwright (1907–2005)
“What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.”
“What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.”
“Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.”
“Who apart From ourselves can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats?”
“THOMAS GuiltyOf mankind. I have perpetrated human nature. My father and mother were accessories before the fact, But therell be no accessories after the fact, By my virility there wont! ...”
“There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.”
“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.”
“The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.”
“We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.”
“THOMAS GuiltyOf mankind. I have perpetrated human nature. My father and mother were accessories before the fact, But there’ll be no accessories after the fact, By my virility there won’t! Just see ...”