Anon Quotes
32 quotes by 23 authors
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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face.…
— John Aubrey
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Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a…
— Heinrich Himmler
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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very…
— Virginia Woolf
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What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the…
— William James
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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in…
— John Milton
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Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or…
— John Milton
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However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.
— William Wordsworth
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Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.
— John Aubrey
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Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And let him seen a mous…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon.
— Paula Poundstone
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.... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that inhabit…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in…
— Charles Dickens
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Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.
— John Milton
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Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine, Scarce our silver feet acquainting…
— Hartley Coleridge
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If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or…
— Lewis Thomas
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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
— Virginia Woolf
Who Wrote These Anon Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 32 Anon Quotes as follows: