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Jean Anouilh: Beauty is one...

Jean Anouilh: Beauty is one...

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Source: Thomas ?...

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Jean Anouilh: The only immorality....

Jean Anouilh: The only immorality....

The only immorality. . . is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

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Jean Anouilh: When you are...

Jean Anouilh: When you are...

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past . . . And when you are seventy, nearly all of...

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Martial: Epigrams need no...

Martial: Epigrams need no...

Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.

Source: Epigrams, 2,...

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Nicolas Boileau: However big the...

Nicolas Boileau: However big the...

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Source: L'Art...

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John Ashbery: There is the...

John Ashbery: There is the...

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation...

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Elizabeth Bishop: Icebergs behoove the...

Elizabeth Bishop: Icebergs behoove the...

Icebergs behoove the soul (Both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair,...

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Robert Bridges: Masefield's sonnets? Ah...

Robert Bridges: Masefield's sonnets? Ah...

Masefield's sonnets? Ah yes. Very nice. Pure Shakespeare. Masefield's 'Reynard the Fox'? Very nice, too. Pure Chaucer....

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Jean de la Fontaine: This fellow did...

Jean de la Fontaine: This fellow did...

This fellow did not see further than his own nose.

Source: Fables, III, 'Le Renard...

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Geoffrey Chaucer: The gretteste clerkes...

Geoffrey Chaucer: The gretteste clerkes...

The gretteste clerkes been noght the wysest men.

Source: Canterbury Tales, 'The...

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Wilson Mizner: I can usually...

Wilson Mizner: I can usually...

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Oscar Wilde: Where there is...

Oscar Wilde: Where there is...

Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. It is only...

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William Wordsworth: A youth to...

William Wordsworth: A youth to...

A youth to whom was given
So much of earth - so much of heaven,
And such impetuous...

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Thornton Wilder: Hope, like faith,...

Thornton Wilder: Hope, like faith,...

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not...

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Philip James Bailey: Who never doubted,...

Philip James Bailey: Who never doubted,...

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her...

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Wilfred Owen: Red lips are...

Wilfred Owen: Red lips are...

Red lips are not so red
As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.


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Vachel Lindsay: Authors and uncaptured...

Vachel Lindsay: Authors and uncaptured...

Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.

Source: In...

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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: Some men by...

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: Some men by...

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

Source: In Webster's...

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Anne Bradstreet: Thou ill-form,d offspring...

Anne Bradstreet: Thou ill-form,d offspring...

Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . . .

Source: From the Author to her...

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Thomas Campbell: Triumphal arch, that...

Thomas Campbell: Triumphal arch, that...

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky
When storms prepare to part,
I ask not proud Philosophy
To teach me what...

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