Quotes about t
thinking let-me knows
Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think W. H. Auden
three matter financial
There are three cardinal rules - don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.
thinking style suffering
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.
time conquer deceiving
O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.
ties important fidelity
Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.
two greek would-be
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
taken hands plot
From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.
thinking personal-knowledge guessing
The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
thinking firsts study
There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.
two reader translate
To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
thinking mystical-experiences ego
I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.
truth important want
The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.
thinking self people
It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time; conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
trying want aging
If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.
thinking two keeping-secrets
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
thinking civilization firsts
I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.
teacher children war
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation, And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had everything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
thinking thanks
Let all your thinks be thanks.
thinking imagination done
Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up Wounds when the balsam could not, and without The aid of salves:--to think hath been a cure. For witchcraft then, that's all done by the force Of mere imagination. William Cartwright
two light soul
There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.
thinking america sprung
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. William Christopher Handy
trying knows can-do
You never know what you can do till you try. William Cobbett
thinking
I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials. William Congreve
thinking may action
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
tea scandal ancient
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
time guests fit
Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing. William Cowper
truth brilliant knows
Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.
thinking bears rich
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
truth
But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.
truth fighting shadow
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
truth lying judgment
And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.
thinking reality danger
We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
tire pleasure labor
Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.