(567 quotes found)
“For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up”
William Shakespeare
“Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but if once cracked can never be repaired”
Sir Walter Scott
“There is only one breath; all are made of the same clay; the light within all is the same.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you”
George Savile
“Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.”
Truman Capote
“Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part.”
Marcus Aurelius
“We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of cr”
T.S. Eliot
“Half of those were very well defended and contested. Those are the ones that take your breath away and take the wind from an opponent's sails.”
Bruce Pearl
“Truly to sing, that is a different breath.”
Rainer Maria Rilke