(266 quotes found)
“Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world”
Henry Louis Mencken
“If you keep at it, one day something which at first appeared impossible will become merely something very difficult indeed.”
Danny Paradise
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.”
Vita Sackville-West
“Why indeed must ''God'' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.”
Mary Daly
“We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry”
John Webster
“Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.... It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination....”
Oscar Wilde
“He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.”
William Shakespeare
“Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind”
Benjamin Franklin
“The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more”
Carl Becker
“Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.”
William Blackstone
