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William Cowper11 quotes
Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour. — William Cowper · 1785A fool must now and then be right, by chance. — William Cowper · 1782Grief is itself a med'cine. — William Cowper · 1782Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid. — William Cowper · 1782Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain. — William Cowper · 1785He likes the country, but in truth must own,
Most likes it, when he studies it in town. — William Cowper · 1782All 11 quotes →Graham Greene7 quotes
He felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness—the sense that that is where we really belong. — Graham Greene · 1948One can't love humanity. One can only love people. — Graham Greene · 1943There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. — Graham Greene · 1940Success is more dangerous than failure, (the ripples break over a wider coastline). — Graham Greene · 1980In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. — Graham Greene · 1948I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. — Graham Greene · 1955All 7 quotes →George Chapman2 quotes
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea
Loves t' have his sails filled with a lusty wind,
Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,
And his rapt ship run on her side so low
That she drinks water, and her keel plows air. — George Chapman · 1608Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. — George Chapman · 1605Lord Salisbury2 quotes
One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means. — Lord Salisbury · 1877No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense. — Lord Salisbury · 1877Gerald Priestland1 quote
Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. — Gerald Priestland · 1988Henry Peacham1 quote
To desire to have many books, and never to use them, is like a childe that will have a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping. — Henry Peacham · 1622Nathaniel Lee1 quote
When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon
But small, appear most long and terrible. — Nathaniel Lee · 1679