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William Ernest Henley has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses,…
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Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
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Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.
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So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark…
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Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
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Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my…
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Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.
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A late lark twitters from the quiet skies.
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Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all…
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And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.
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Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with…
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[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the…
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Popular Chloroform quotes from across the collection:
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Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform..
— Ray Romano
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I have preferred chloroform to cancer
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
— Clarence Darrow
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Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.
— John Barbirolli
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Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with…
— William Ernest Henley
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
— George Bernard Shaw
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All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble…
— Mark Twain
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Emery cut in impatiantly, "For crying out loud. Who do you think you are, Nancy Drew?" Hey," I snapped, because no one…
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
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Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
— Oswald Chambers
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
— Oliver St. John
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