Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Honore de Balzac

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Honore de Balzac

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

Honore de Balzac

Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Honore de Balzac

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Honore de Balzac

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Honore de Balzac

The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.

Honore de Balzac

La solitude est une belle chose; mais il faut quelqu'un pour vous dire que la solitude est une belle chose.

Honore de Balzac

Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.

Hannah Cowley

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.

Hart Crane

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

Haruki Murakami

If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, that's what you aim for.

Johnny Marr

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

Jeffrey McDaniel

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.

Jeffrey McDaniel

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

John O'Donohue

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Jack Prelutsky

And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.

John Pomfret

Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience.

John Pomfret

When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.

John Pomfret

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

John Crowe Ransom

I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

J. B. Smoove