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british-author disgrace general heart human interest particular subject totally trifle
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable. Thomas Day
british-author england gentleman large lived name western whose
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
british-author luxuries poor
We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.
british-author lest shame triumph
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
british-author people truth
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre. Jackie Collins
british-author forget known leave meeting officially six
I will never forget meeting Suu Kyi in Rangoon - now officially known as Yangon - some six years ago, when she was still able to leave her house. Timothy Garton Ash
british-author enjoyed imagination mysteries relief
I enjoyed writing mysteries out of my imagination as a relief from all that research, and also because I could write them while traveling. Antonia Fraser
british-author cautious century taught work
If the 20th century taught us anything, it is to be cautious about the work impossible.
british-author foreign gifts humour perish
Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. Virginia Woolf
lest stands wander
Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still. William Hazlitt
lestat vampire-lestat changes-over-time
None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are. Anne Rice
lest lives supposed
The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms. Tammy Faye Bakker
lest substance
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop
shame produce trauma
Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis. bell hooks
shame
O shame, where is thy blush? William Shakespeare
shame test
Shame, shame on America. We were put to the test and we have failed. Diane Watson
shame
I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera. James Gray
shame
It is a shame there was such a setback there.
shame work
It is a shame that the work has been done in the way it has.
shameful warn
I think it's shameful that they didn't warn the American people.
shameful
I think it's shameful that there is no barrier.
shame
I thought it was a shame that I didn't know my own.
triumph chance
Wisdom triumphs over chance. Juvenal
triumph habit
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. Clive James
triumph defeat what-is-life
What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power? Ameen Rihani
triumph conquer poet
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. Abraham Cowley
triumph world unnecessary
I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary David Byrne
triumph
Your triumph is the triumph of all of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez
triumph human-nature creeds
The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions. George Eliot
triumph satan virtue
When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while? Gunter Grass
triumph bliss disaster
If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss. Kathie Lee Gifford