Nov 9, 2010
Quotes by Dante
"Che', seggendo in piuma, In fama non si vien, ne' sotto coltre. (For fame is not won by lying on a feather bed nor under a canopy.)"
Quotes by Sir Noel Coward
"Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington".
Quotes by Stephen Grover Cleveland
"They love him most for the enemies ha has made".
Quotes by Sir Winston Churchill
"[On Lord Charles Beresford] He is one of those orators, of whom it was well said, "Before they get up they do not know ... Read More
Jul 31, 2010
Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Fate laughs at probabilities".
Quotes by Anita Brookner
"All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and...you don't win the favour of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold".
Quotes by Elizabeth Dorothea
"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat".
Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves and good fortune to others".
Quotes by Samuel Beckett
"What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes".
Quotes by Francis Bacon
"If a man ... Read More
Feb 5, 2010
Quotes by George Chapman
"Trust not a reconciled friend, for good turns cannot blot out old grudges".
Quotes by Susannah Centlivre
"Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined".
Quotes by Willa Cather
"Only solitary men know the full joy of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything".
Quotes by George Canning
"But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!"
Quotes by Byron Lord George Gordon
"Friendship is Love without his wings".
Quotes ... Read More
Nov 27, 2009
Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Life differs from the play only in this...it has no plot - all is vague, desultory, unconnected - till the curtain drops with the mystery unsolved".
Quotes by Bertolt Brecht
"Life is short and so is money".
Quotes by Alan Bennett
"Life, you know, is rather like opening a tin of sardines. We're all of us looking for the key".
Quotes by Anonymous
"Death is a port whereby we pass to joy, Life is a lake that drowneth all in payn".
Quotes by Maya Angelou
"My life ... Read More