Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Cavendish

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

Robert Burton

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Gerald Brenan

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

Gerald Brenan

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.

William Godwin

If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.

William Godwin

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Richard Whately

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

Richard Whately

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.

Vera Brittain

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

William Godwin

To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.

John Ruskin

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

John Ruskin

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

Piers Anthony

Much of what is published is actually science fantasy, seeming possible but actually impossible, such as faster than light space travel.

Nigel Kneale

Certainly, it isn't a ghost story where people go into a haunted house. There have been two or three made on that basis, but I didn't want to do that.

Agatha Christie

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

Joseph Addison

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have here below.

Brian Aldiss

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Brian Aldiss

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Clive Barker

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

Mike Butcher

You can not be afraid when you get to this level to teach. I don't care what level you're at, if you don't teach, you're worthless.

Frank Muir

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Izaak Walton

In so doing, use him as though you loved him.

John Gould

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.

Ada Cambridge

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

Mike Butcher

We're looking for a guy that can step it up.