If you like poetry let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith Pope (if you will though I don't admire him),… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
God, you Jews are truly exotic." Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends.… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was… — Ed McMahon Copy Share Image
I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles,… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
There were some television sets back in the '50s, but they were expensive. People would gather at the rich guy's apartment down… — Al Feldstein Copy Share Image
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner.… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“...[T]he three greatest works are those of Homer , Dante and Shakespeare . These are closely followed by the works of Virgil… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man. — Alfred Edward Housman Copy Share Image
We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
My grandparents and my mother were marvelous people, but they were not particularly demonstrative in their love. It was teachers who were… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed… — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially… — Mart Laar Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
