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Felicitous Quotes by Mark Twain
- 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…
- The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever…
More Felicitous Quotes
- This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Ron Carlson
- Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good… — 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… — Gideon Haigh
- Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is… — Christian Nestell Bovee
- The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination… — 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.… — Ian Mcewan