Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Churchill

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.

George Herbert

When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

Leigh Hunt

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

Emily Dickinson

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

Thomas Hood

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

Walter Scott

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

David Guterson

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

Edgar Allan Poe

I fell in love with melancholy

Ben Jonson

Have you a stool there to be melancholy upon?

Aristotle

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

Baruch Spinoza

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Alexander McQueen

I am a melancholy type of person.

Albert Camus

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

James L. Petigru

If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.

Ovid

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

Gamaliel Bradford

There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words

John Gardner

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

Anne Morgan

She goes in disguise uptown to thieve in the homes of the rich. She's a survivor.

Steven Gerrard

Statistics don't lie. I'm not going to disguise the fact that we need a poacher. The problem we have got is obvious.

Jason Avant

I was pretty scared. I tried to disguise it.

Billy Zane

I'm a superhero in disguise as a ne'er-do-well cad.

Richard Armitage

Now, whether it is the mobile labs or weapons disguised as industry, we are finding ... that the capabilities were even more dispersed and disguised than we had thought,

Miranda Hart

My whole family is obsessed by brandy butter. And bread sauce. Then, of course, there will be a lot of wind in the afternoon! We have never disguised the wind side of our lives as a family; we think it's hilarious.

Sarah MacLean

There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards.