Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

William Shakespeare

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

William Shakespeare

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.

Edith Wharton

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.

Elizabeth I

I will have but one mistress and no master

Ben Jonson

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

Ben Jonson

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

Jane Austen

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Barry Goldwater

Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Alan Rickman

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Alan Rickman

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I like it when stories are left open.

Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?

Alan Moore

Everybody has their story to tell.

Alan Ball

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

Chris Cleave

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

David Tang

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

Caitlin Thomas

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

David Baron

We still tend to think of mountain lions and bears and wolves as being endangered, and in some parts of the country they are,

Gustave Flaubert

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Athol Fugard

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

Chaim Potok

Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown

Benjamin Franklin

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

Benjamin Franklin

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others