(102 quotes found)
“To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.”
“The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing”
“The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy”
“A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.”
“Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.”
“Writers are the main landmarks of the past.”
“Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.”
“Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality”
“Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.”
