Bits Quote by Aeschylus

“Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!”

— Mary Shelley

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through…

— Mortimer Collins

“You’re mad,” I said. “You know what he can do. No prize is worth that.” Sturmhond grinned. “That remains to be seen.” “The Darkling…

— Leigh Bardugo

He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin.…

— Winston Churchill

He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations;…

— Joshua Reynolds

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

— Joseph Campbell

“She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use them to pay the ferryman.…

— Kate Atkinson

“But see, amid the mimic rout A crawling shape intrude! A blood-red thing that writhes from out The scenic solitude! It writhes!- it writhes!-…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath; Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath, Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife; And fretting…

— Edmund Spenser

“He lay still, his bloodshot eyes staring blankly before him, and drifted into dreams of his problems, compulsively living out dialogues, summing up emotional…

— Richard Wright

“The man slips along the stoically congealed houses Perpendicular like them A moving ornament Burning fiction His fragility contradicts the duration of his torments”

— Hélène Baronne d’Oettingen

He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater