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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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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
— Charlotte Bronte
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And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.
— Winston Churchill
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Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
— Winston Churchill
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Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I.…
— Sam Manekshaw
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You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
— Alfred Jarry
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If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
— Winston Churchill
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In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes…
— Samuel Johnson
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I've made it clear, Madam President, that the war against terrorism is not a war against Muslims, nor is it a war…
— George W. Bush
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Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
— Samuel Johnson
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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
— Ambrose Bierce
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