Felicitous Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe,… — Jorge Luis Borges
I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as… — Roger Martin
A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem. — Atle Selberg
There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it. — Charles de Saint-Evremond
I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff… — Mark Twain
O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon! — Marianne Moore
The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There is care and… — Ron Carlson
Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It is… — Robert Farrar Capon
George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least… — Gideon Haigh
Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever… — Mark Twain
My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors. I wanted characters… — Ian Mcewan

Who Wrote These Felicitous Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 12 Felicitous Quotes as follows: