Partition Quotes
43 Partition quotes by 37 unique authors
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
— John Dryden
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And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the…
— Shimon Peres
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
— Alexander Pope
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There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes from sight, or…
— Clive Barker
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I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip…
— Michel Houellebecq
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Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner -- what is it?…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.
— William Shakespeare
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Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The…
— William Dalrymple
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They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been…
— Virginia Woolf
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I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered. The taxi driver grinned in the rearview mirror. “Been a long time since you…
— Rick Riordan
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Reality is such a pain. Those of us who were fed up with that kind of reality decided to remake it. We’d set up a…
— Ryohgo Narita
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We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.
— William Golding
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I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
— Umera Ahmad
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We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
— Gerry Adams
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And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is…
— Henry Lawson
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Your lips, delicate and yielding, yet warm and soggy, brush against mine, temporarily from the beginning and after that with a solidness that sends joys…
— Cazz
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My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers, which, however, I did not promise to do. Yesterday, Sunday, she was heard…
— Henry David Thoreau
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'So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.''
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Partition Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 43 Partition Quotes, led by these top contributors: