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Perhaps Quotes by Angela Carter
- There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was…
- I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
- Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps…
- It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
- ...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in…
- He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in…
- As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point…
More Perhaps Quotes
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun