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Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

Source:...

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Janet Erskine Stuart: Don't wait for...

Janet Erskine Stuart: Don't wait for...

Don't wait for ideal circumstances; they will never come; nor for the best opportunities.

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Alexander Pope: The learn'd is...

Alexander Pope: The learn'd is...

The learn'd is happy nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no more.


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Alexander Pope: Hope springs eternal...

Alexander Pope: Hope springs eternal...

Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blessed.


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Oscar Wilde: Duty is what...

Oscar Wilde: Duty is what...

Duty is what one expects from others.

Source: Lord Illingworth, in A Woman of No...

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Oscar Wilde: CECILY. When I...

Oscar Wilde: CECILY. When I...

CECILY. When I see a spade I call it a spade.
GWENDOLEN. I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious...

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Samuel Beckett: I write about...

Samuel Beckett: I write about...

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another...

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Thornton Wilder: Every good thing...

Thornton Wilder: Every good thing...

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Source: Wriston's...

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Thornton Wilder: I regard the...

Thornton Wilder: I regard the...

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with...

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John Webster: My soul, like...

John Webster: My soul, like...

My soul, like to a ship in a black storm,
Is driven, I know not whither.


Source:...

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Noel Coward: I'm over-educated in...

Noel Coward: I'm over-educated in...

I'm over-educated in the things I shouldn't have known at all.

Source: In Peter's...

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Wilson Mizner: Some of the...

Wilson Mizner: Some of the...

Some of the greatest love affairs I've known involved one actor, unassisted.

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Stephane Mallarme: The poetic act...

Stephane Mallarme: The poetic act...

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them;...

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Basil Bunting: The mystic purchases...

Basil Bunting: The mystic purchases...

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: For the godly...

Caius Valerius Catullus: For the godly...

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

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John Ashbery: I don't want...

John Ashbery: I don't want...

I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of...

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Wilfred Owen: All a poet...

Wilfred Owen: All a poet...

All a poet can do today is warn.

Source: Poems.
-- Wilfred Owen, (Mar 18...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: Your world is...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: Your world is...

Your world is as big as you make it.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet...

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Alexander Smith: Everything is sweetened...

Alexander Smith: Everything is sweetened...

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Source: Of Death and the Fear of Dying.
--...

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Vladimir Mayakovsky: Comrade life,<br>let us<br>march...

Vladimir Mayakovsky: Comrade life,
let us
march...

Comrade life,
let us
march faster,
March
faster through what's left
of the five-year...

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