top of page

"Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace."

John Tyler, American President

Thought, May, Popularity

27

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace."

Exlpore more Thought quotes

"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

Thought, Thoughts, Order, Sin

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Thought, Thoughts, Aspirations, Man, Will

"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Thought, Day, Pity

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

George Orwell, British Author

Thought, Language

"When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Thought, Fiction, Reality, Thinking, Truth

"Wrong thoughts pattern your life towards it for we live our thoughts."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

Thought, Life, Mind, Reality

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Thought, Thoughts, Heaven, Words

"Knowledge is intellectual art."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Thought, Knowledge, Art, Intellect, Learning

Explore more quotes by John Tyler

"I can never consent to being dictated to."

"Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God."

"So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations."

"Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality."

"Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace."

bottom of page