78 quotes found
“Our academical Pharisees.”
“The dust and silence of the upper shelf.”
“The temple of silence and reconciliation.”
“Ye diners-out from whom we guard our spoons.”
“Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.”
“Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor man loved the great;Then lands were fairly proportioned;Then spoils were fairly sold;The Romans...”
“Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
“We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.”
“Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.”
“No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I'd like to live in the countr...”
“The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised...”
“What I remember most clearly is how it felt. Id just finished painting a red fire engine-like the one I often walked past near my grandparents house. Suddenly the teachers, whose names I've long fo...”
“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
“We may say that all ages are dangerous to all people, in this dangerous life we live. But the thirties are a specially dangerous time for women. They have outlived the shyness and restraints of gir...”
“Thus spake brave Horatius, the captain of the gate. To all men upon this Earth, death cometh soon or late. And what better way to die, than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of ones' fathers, and ...”
“Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!”
“American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.”
“I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify ...”
“And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?”
“Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.”
“The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.”
“The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.”
“The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.”
“I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eig...”
“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old ...”
