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All Quotes Collection
"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
14
"Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance."
57
"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married."
61
"The supernatural is the natural not yet understood."
18
"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."
16
"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting."
41
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat."
17
"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."
11
"My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children."
29
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
17
"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
43
"When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person."
63
"Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do."
16
"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."
43
"The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern."
13
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
25
"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were."
49
"The future depends on what we do in the present."
17
"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune."
42
"When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it."
16
"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."
78
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
74
"To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle."
13
"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."
14
"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
17
"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."
17
"I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
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