Verses Quotes

409 quotes by 299 authors

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. — Russell Baker
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always… — Charles Baudelaire
The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal… — Tony Campolo
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. — Paul Cezanne
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and… — Nicolas Chamfort
Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse. — Tracy Chapman
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard… — Leonard Cohen
A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you… — Deepak Chopra
Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you. — Jon Bon Jovi
Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my… — Charles Spurgeon
The mad is either insane or he is composing verses. — Horace
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;… — William Blake
Universe is just a verse of me, I keep it generic and the niggas take it personally. — Drake
Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD. — Drake
I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars. — George Carlin
This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll help to recreate… — Michio Kaku
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. — Alexander Pope
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except… — Charles Darwin
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the… — Andre Maurois

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