(2823 quotes found)
“The play is done; the curtain drops,Slow falling to the prompter's bellA moment yet the actor stopsAnd looks around to say farewell.It is an irksome word and task:And when he's laughed and said his say,He shows, as he removes the mask,A face that's anything but gay.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not attained his noon.”
Robert Herrick
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
Washington Irving
“Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of woe”
William Shakespeare
“When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.”
Clark Moustakas
“And yet Its still moves”
Galileo Galilei
“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”
Toni Morrison
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
Jack Handey
“Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!”
Countee Cullen