"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."

Nature, Poetry, Character, Comedy

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"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."

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"Creatures, I give you yourselves," said the strong, happy voice of Aslan. "I give to you forever this land of Narnia. I give you the woods, the fruits, the rivers. I give you the stars and I give you myself. The Dumb Beasts whom I have not chosen are yours also. Treat them gently and cherish them but do not go back to their ways lest you cease to be Talking Beasts. For out of them you were taken and into them you can return. Do not so."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Nature, Gift, Creation, Respect

"He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods, the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Nature, Imagination, Reality, Perception

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

Nature, Hell

"If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Nature, Water, Ocean, Impossibility, Limitations

"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Nature, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom, Power

"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Nature, Interest, Curiosity, Observation

"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

Nature, Judges, Laws, Mercy

"Night never needs a shade but it requires to fade into the grin of twinkling stars where light is just a glint of scars."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Nature, Night, Stars, Light, Beauty

"Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Nature, Clarity, Perception, Beauty

"Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Nature, Loneliness, Freedom, Isolation

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"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."

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"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."

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"Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth."

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"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."

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"He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods, the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted."

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."

"If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty."

"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me."

"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal."

"Night never needs a shade but it requires to fade into the grin of twinkling stars where light is just a glint of scars."

"Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only."

"Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die."

Explore more quotes by Horace Walpole

"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."

"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."

"Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth."

"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel."

"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."

"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."

"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon."

"We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second."

"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."