Quotes of: Poe Keyword

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Honore de Balzac

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

Terence

Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

Annie Besant

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

Annie Besant

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

Annie Besant

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Anne Bradstreet

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

Ana Castillo

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Abraham Cowley

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

Alison Croggon

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Annie Dillard

Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.

Andrea Dworkin

The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.

Annie Dillard

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

Alice Lowe

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

Andrew Motion

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

Andrew Motion

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

Archibald MacLeish

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

Archibald MacLeish

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

Alexander Pope

Porque mostrei enfado com as diligências necessárias para despachar a bagagem, considerou que sofria de horror aos preparativos das viagens, rotulando-me de efodiofóbico.

Antero de Quental

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Aristotle