« All Agate Quotes
·
Vladimir Nabokov's Page
Agate Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
1 Agate quote by Vladimir Nabokov
More Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov has 271 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than…
-
I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
-
The tiny madman in his padded cell.
-
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix…
-
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring…
-
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
-
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
-
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
-
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between…
-
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
-
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
See all 271 quotes by Vladimir Nabokov »
More Agate Quotes
Popular Agate quotes from across the collection:
-
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
-
To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like…
— James Bertolino
-
Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume…
— Ezra Pound
-
Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by…
— Mary McCarthy
-
Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison…
— Vladimir Nabokov
-
I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I…
— Janet Fitch
-
O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In…
— William Shakespeare
-
The first pair Opal and Amber are, Agate sings in B flat, the wolf avatar, A duet-solutio! - with Aquamarine. Mighty Emerald…
— Kerstin Gier
-
James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare,…
— Donald Sinden
See all Agate Quotes »
Browse Vladimir Nabokov Quotes by Category