Ransack Quotes

10 quotes by 9 authors

• To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover… — Michel Foucault
• Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished.… — Bertrand de Jouvenel
• I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he… — Joshua Reynolds
• The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitudes; for… — Patrick Henry
• Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic. — George Steiner
• When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility… — Tom Stoppard
• Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. — Virginia Woolf
• What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the… — Woody Allen
• I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure. — Virginia Woolf

Who Wrote These Ransack Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 10 Ransack Quotes as follows:

• 2 Ransack Quotes by Virginia Woolf
• 1 Ransack Quote by Michel Foucault
• 1 Ransack Quote by Bertrand de Jouvenel
• 1 Ransack Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Ransack Quote by Joshua Reynolds
• 1 Ransack Quote by Patrick Henry
• 1 Ransack Quote by George Steiner
• 1 Ransack Quote by Tom Stoppard
• 1 Ransack Quote by Woody Allen