Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature,… — Duff Cooper Copy Share Image
Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination… — William James Copy Share Image
It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I… — George A Tice Copy Share Image
Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
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