I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of…

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

— Abigail Adams

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for…

— Edward Abbey

Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words…

— Ken Danby

“The quality we call intelligence today is merely verbal felicity.”

— Anonymous

Life is short, so fall in love, dear maiden, before your youthful ardor cools off, for there is no tomorrow.

— Atsushi

Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and…

— Andre Gide

In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock to you.…

— John Cassian

As each man's strength gives out, as it no longer responds to his will, the inertia of the whole gradually comes to rest on…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Before Midnight is one of the years best movies. Full to the brim with humor, heartbreak, and ravishing romance. Richard Linklater directs with ardor…

— Peter Travers

Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and…

— Mary C. Ames

In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age…

— Leopold Hartley Grindon

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health…

— Willa Cather

“She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most races live, and with…

— Darrell Drake

Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious…

— John Adams

“But where do we find what's lasting? Where do the deathless things hide?”

— Adam Zagajewski