Quotations
Quotes:
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
View quotes by Max Frisch
The 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 Voto
Y'all are so cute and y'all talk so proper over here. I love England.
View quotes by Beyonce Knowles
The proper study of mankind is books (Crome Yellow)
View quotes by Aldous Huxley
Proper names are rigid designators. [Naming and Necessity]
View quotes by Saul Kripke
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
View quotes by Joseph Addison
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
View quotes by W H Auden
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
View quotes by Jean De La Bruyere
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
View quotes by Harry S Truman
Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
View quotes by Jonathan Swift
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech
View quotes by Quintilian
To get on TV these days you need to be a young, attractive, lively thing who looks good in front of the camera - never mind if you can't string a proper sentence together.
View quotes by Barry Norman
This has been a very hard decision for me to make, because I'm so happy here on EastEnders, but it's been a long time without a proper break, and I just feel some time off would be good for me, and probably the character too. [on taking a break from Eastenders]
View quotes by Barbara Windsor
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.
View quotes by Aleister Crowley
The proper study of mankind is woman.
View quotes by Henry Adams
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.
View quotes by Simone Weil
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
View quotes by Thomas J Watson
It was only stares and swearwords really, nothing serious. I just laugh about it because they can hardly speak proper English.
View quotes by Kevin Pietersen
He's a proper horse. He's brilliant. [on Hedgehunter, winner of the 2005 Grand National]
View quotes by Ruby Walsh
For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed
View quotes by Clifton Fadiman
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