Beard Quote by Anonymous

“The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

“Wise men told him his simple fancies were inane and childish, and even more absurd because their actors persist in fancying them full of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Before a man can become great, he must look foolish to the crowd.”

— I-Ching

“And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was an endless…

— Alexandra Bracken

“with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“His eyes had something dull about them, expressionless, the bored look of a mediocre intelligence that wrongly supposes it has “seen it all before.”

— Herman Koch

“I had a keen delight in receiving the new ideas he offered, in imagining the new pictures he portrayed, and following him in thought…

— Charlotte Brontë

“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have…

— Marcel Proust

“He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold…

— Sherwood Anderson

“It was quite unlike their friendly discourse of some days before, and presently Stephen grew sadly bored: lies or half-lies, he reflected, had a…

— Patrick O'Brian