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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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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the…
— Arnold Bennett
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A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
— Alec Guinness
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Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve.
— Adolf Hitler
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He walked into a room and everything stopped. Elvis was just so physically beautiful that even if he didn't have any talent...…
— Tuesday Weld
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John Terry wears his shirt on his sleeve
— Ray Parlour
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God's always got a custard pie up his sleeve.
— Margaret Forster
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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
— Lynn Redgrave
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There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you…
— Michael Ondaatje
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The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.
— George Herbert
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited…
— Charles de Gaulle
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I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots,…
— Eoin Colfer
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Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard…
— Georgette Heyer
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