Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Freya Stark

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Guillaume Apollinaire

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Georges Simenon

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

Howard Lindsay

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

H. P. Lovecraft

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

Joyce Meyer

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

Lucy Larcom

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

Livy

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Matthew Arnold

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Orson Welles

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Samuel Johnson

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

Thomas Hood

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Toni Morrison

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

Thornton Wilder

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

George MacDonald

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

George Orwell

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

Lionel Trilling

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

Mary Douglas