Portrait Quotes

291 quotes by 225 authors

Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait — Blaise Cendrars
When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome… — Oscar Wilde
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in… — Anne Fadiman
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."… — Oscar Wilde
But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse. — Emily Dickinson
Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug historyâ€™s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your… — Chuck Palahniuk
your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a… — Chuck Palahniuk
There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a… — Jodi Picoult
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone… — Jean-Paul Sartre
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound. — Susanna Kaysen
He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate… — George Orwell
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In… — Brennan Manning
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat… — Oscar Wilde
When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a… — P.G. Wodehouse
I wasnâ€˜tâ€”" I began. I didnâ€˜tâ€”" He began. How charming," Vâ€˜lane cut us off. His voice arrived before he did. "The very portrait of human… — Karen Marie Moning
Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print,… — Isabel Allende
You cheated!â€ He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. â€œI beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for… — Sarah MacLean

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