1891 · Skopia

Showing 33 quotes from 1891

The curves of your lips rewrite history.

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1891

★ 5.5

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Intentions · 1891

★ 5.4

To name an object is to take away three-fourths of the pleasure given by a poem. This pleasure consists in guessing little by little to suggest it, that is the ideal.

Stephane Mallarme

1891

★ 5.1

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Intentions · 1891

★ 4.5

We do not seek for truth in the abstract... Every man sees what he looks for, and hears what he listens for, and nothing else.

George Bernard Shaw

1891

★ 4.5

Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles · 1891

★ 4.4

Short story · Magazine · Detective fiction

You see, but you do not observe.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Scandal in Bohemia · 1891

★ 4.0

Short story · Magazine · Detective fiction

It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Red-Headed League · 1891

★ 3.9

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.

1891

★ 3.8

Essay · Magazine · Political literature

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 3.8

It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

Intentions · 1891

★ 3.8

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1891

★ 3.8

Short story · Magazine · Detective fiction

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Case of Identity · 1891

★ 3.7

Essay · Magazine · Political literature

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 3.7

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of Art.

Intentions · 1891

★ 3.7

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Intentions · 1891

★ 3.7

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Intentions · 1891

★ 3.7

Dies, all dies! The grass it dies, but in vernal rain Up it springs and it lives again; Over and over, again and again It lives, it dies and it lives again.

Herman Melville

Works · 1891

★ 3.5

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic, the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

Theodore Roosevelt

1891

★ 2.9

Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports.

Robert P. Porter

1891

★ 2.6

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