Quotations
Quotes:
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road (Le rouge et le noir)
View quotes by Stendhal (henri Beyle)
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
View quotes by Dorothy Parker
Here lies a most beautiful lady,
Light of step and heart was she;
I think she was the most beautiful lady
That ever was in the West Country.
But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;
However rare - rare it be;
And when I crumble, who will remember
This lady of the West Country?
('Epitaph', 1912)
View quotes by Walter De La Mare
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
View quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
View quotes by Henry David Thoreau
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, 'I will tell you a story,' and then he passes the hat.
View quotes by Robertson Davies
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
View quotes by Carl Sandburg
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
View quotes by George Jean Nathan
Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.
View quotes by Luis Cernuda
One of the strongest prejudices that one has to overcome when one visits Australia is that created by the weird jargon than passes for English in this country.
View quotes by Valerie Desmond
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
View quotes by Horace
Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
View quotes by Robert Hutchins
For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand passes in practice.
View quotes by Don Hutson
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
View quotes by Joel A Barker
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
View quotes by George Washington
I'm not saying there haven't been tensions [with Gordon Brown]. It passes.
View quotes by Tony Blair
History will not be kind to the chicanery that passes for governing in the Bush II administration.
View quotes by Bob Herbert
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
View quotes by Maria Schell
We all play. I play, my husband, the nanny... My son uses all his adrenaline and then passes out. That's a good night.
View quotes by Madonna
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