Quotes · Skopia

81 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Place·Edinburgh✕clear

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Requiem · 1887

★ 1.0

Short story · Magazine · Detective fiction

We are dealing with an exceptionally astute and dangerous man...one of the most unscrupulous rascals that Australia has ever evolved—and for a young country it has turned out some very finished types.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax · 1911

★ 1.0

Speech · Political speech

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

1621

★ 1.1

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1879

★ 1.1

Novel · Magazine · Detective fiction

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet · 1887

★ 1.2

Novel · Magazine · Detective fiction

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet · 1887

★ 1.2

Short story · Magazine · Detective fiction

The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches · 1892

★ 1.2

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island · 1882

★ 1.3

Speech · Political speech

The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed-until the pips squeak.

1918

★ 1.7

Personal journal · Travel writing

My definition of Man is, "a Cooking Animal." The beasts have memory, judgment, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook... Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

1773

★ 1.8

The opinion seems to have got abroad, that, in a few years, all the great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry on these measurements to another place of decimals.

James Clerk Maxwell

1871

★ 1.8

Were I to... Take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, "In your lifetime, have you known peace?" wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in turn into his father, I would never hear the word "yes" if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years.

1941

★ 1.8

A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

1604

★ 1.9

O Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood.

Sir Walter Scott

The Lady of Minstrel · 1805

★ 1.9

These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however nobly sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture of these bonds.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1885

★ 1.9

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

1957

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.

Iain Duncan Smith

2002

★ 1.9

And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last.

Sir Walter Scott

1808

★ 1.9

November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear.

Sir Walter Scott

Marmion · 1808

★ 1.9

Look back, and smile at perils past!

Sir Walter Scott

1813

★ 1.9

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