Quotes of: Poe Keyword

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

Roger Penrose

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Tom Stoppard

Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

Victoria Moran

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia Woolf

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

William Congreve

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

W. Somerset Maugham

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

Wallace Stevens

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

Xenophon

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilder

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

Mel Brooks

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

Henry Rollins

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Janet Jackson

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Francoise Sagan

Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.

Wole Soyinka

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

Eduard Hanslick

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

Edward P. Jones

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Elinor Wylie

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

Guy Davenport

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

George William Russell

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Henry George