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literature moderns speak
Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. Lord Chesterfield
literature faces mysterious
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. Arthur Conan Doyle
literature consolation ifs
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it. Carl Sandburg
literature architecture masters
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Bryant H. McGill
literature appreciated rudeness
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
literature rich resources
Few nations match our rich resource of literature. Charles Clarke
literature dresses solicitude
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. Jane Austen
literature incapability university
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. Anton Chekhov
literature proportion interpretation
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes. Dana Gioia
madness seeing
You are seeing a kind of dot-com madness. Jonathan Sacks
madness realized
I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out. John Glover
madness sanity
Worse than madness. Sanity. William Golding
madness inconvenience passerby
With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience. Joe Orton
madness
It takes madness to find out madness. Lady Gregory
madness impossibility
To expect an impossibility is madness. Marcus Aurelius
madness steppenwolf higher
madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom Hermann Hesse
madness rage orderly
Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible. Gustave Flaubert
witty
You're just as witty as you feel, just as witty as you feel inside. Rain Bojangles
witty guilt accepting
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. Ayn Rand
witty humorous healing
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
witty humorous voting
Vote early and vote often. Al Capone
witness
We did not actually get to witness the reunion.
witty should-have credit
Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest. Baltasar Gracian
within
Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.
witch
is not going to be a witch hunt; it's a fact-finding mission.
witty real character
The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty Dylan Moran