Laughter is nothing else but
sudden glory arising from some
sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly, (Human Nature)
View quotes by Thomas HobbesThe proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and
sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. (Harper's Magazine, 1949)
View quotes by Bernard De VotoEach
sudden gust of light explains itself
as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear (Leaving Belfast)
View quotes by Andrew MotionThe heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by
sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
View quotes by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a
sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
View quotes by Elias CanettiGreat joy, especially after a
sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
View quotes by Henry FieldingI believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and
sudden usurpations.
View quotes by James MadisonThe
sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
View quotes by Thomas HardyThere is no
sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals...
View quotes by Ben SteinThe safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without
sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
View quotes by C S LewisYou start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a
sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.
View quotes by Cindy CrawfordNew York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a
sudden move.
View quotes by David LettermanWhat we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably
sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
View quotes by Sigmund FreudCricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and
sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.
View quotes by George OrwellThe big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a
sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
View quotes by George William CurtisSudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.
View quotes by Neil Simon“Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
“Every work of art is about everything.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
“Originality in art puts charm where it wasn’t.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
“Art can make the old surprising, and the new and
sudden soothing.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
View quotes by Eli SiegelActions rare and
sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.
View quotes by William DavenantTo invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a
sudden my reaction changes from 'How shiny and beautiful they all are!' to 'Get that damned thing out of my mouth!'
View quotes by Jaroslav PelikanAfter nine days... I'd gotten used to the horizon, to the orderly rhythm of the ship, and all of a
sudden the world came flooding back.
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