Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
One may quote till one compiles.
A poet is a painter of the soul.
Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
There is a society in the deepest solitude.
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.
A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.
There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.
Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
A circle may be small, yet it may be as mathematically beautiful and perfect as a large one.
To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.
Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.
The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.
Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.
There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.
If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.
The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.
Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.
It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.