In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures,… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between… — Oscar wilde Copy Share Image
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I’d be happier on a horse,” Makin said. “I’d be happier on a giant mountain goat,” I said. “One that shat diamonds.… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and… — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
