Unmeaning Quotes
13 quotes by 11 authors
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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
— H.G. Wells
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If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning…
— Frederick Corder
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No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts,…
— Alexander Trocchi
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We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a…
— Alexander Pope
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Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness.…
— Walter Pater
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a…
— William Hazlitt
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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
— Pythagoras
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Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some…
— Matthew Arnold
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It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our lives seldom belies…
— William Hazlitt
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Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of…
— Lord Byron
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Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with…
— Francis Parkman
Who Wrote These Unmeaning Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 13 Unmeaning Quotes as follows: