Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

George Herbert

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

George Herbert

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

George Herbert

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Humour is the best weapon to fight any battle. But there is a thin line between humour and humiliation and beware not to cross it.

Girish Kohli

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

George Henry Lewes

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

George Henry Lewes

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

George Henry Lewes

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

Gerald Massey

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

Guru Nanak

Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.

Guru Nanak

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Guru Nanak

I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

Guru Nanak

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

Guru Nanak

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

George Oppen

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

Hilaire Belloc