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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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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
— Walter Winchell
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After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine;…
— William Safire
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I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I'm just mobbin like…
— Drake
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The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin.
— Carmine Gallo
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Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a…
— Pippa Middleton
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My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and…
— Alexander Wang
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Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Here's a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don't know anybody: First take out the garbage.…
— Jack Handey
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Beauty without intelligence, is a masterpiece painted on a napkin.
— Barbara Palvin
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I never use a napkin on my lap at a restaurant...because I believe in myself.
— Hannibal Buress
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As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A…
— Antony Sher
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Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.
— Iggy Azalea
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