COLLECTION OF
QUOTATIONS
ON THE INTERNET
|
|
THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS ON THE INTERNET |
| Home | Biographical Index | Reading List | Search | Site Notes | Varying Hare Books | | |||
| GIGA Quotes | Quotes by Topic | Authors by Date | | |||
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored. - [Charity] Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit. - [Charity] Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker. - [Life] Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked. - [Disgrace] Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden. - [Dissimulation] Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice. - [Emulation] Excess always carries its own retribution. - [Excess] Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises. - [Fame] Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty, but kind to ugliness. - [Familiarity] Fancy tortures more people than does reality. - [Fancy] Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God. - [Flowers] Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone. - [Friendship] Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting. - [Genius] Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth. - [Money] Histories in blazonry and poems in stone. - [Architecture] Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong. - [Honor] Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet. - [Laughter] Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest. - [Imagination] Indifference is the invincible grant of the world. - [Indifference] It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful. - [Death] It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway. - [Happiness] Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names. - [Crime] Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. - [Music] Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me. - [Authorship] No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world. - [Talking] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
|
|
