Lytton Strachey, in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967) Quote #8278 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Fyodor Dostoevski Quote #10180 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my...
Cornelius Stam Quote #31823 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 When Paul went to the Jew first, it was not because it seemed that...
C. M. Cox Quote #15696 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a...
Suzanne Gordon Quote #34000 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
Plato, The Republic Quote #4409 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness,...
Guy Davenport Quote #2118 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to...
Lady Nancy Astor Quote #25036 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quote #14622 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he...