Writ Quotes

78 quotes by 63 authors

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ. — John Dryden
Public behavior is merely private character writ large. — Stephen Covey
Kids are anarchy writ large. — Jeffrey Kluger
I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one… — James Otis
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or… — James Otis
External nature is only internal nature writ large. — Swami Vivekananda
And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the… — William Shakespeare
I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on… — Dorothy Parker
I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long… — Barbara Mertz
A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his… — Michael O'Brien
O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for… — William Shakespeare
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. — Galileo Galilei
Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and… — Jonathan Lethem
No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am… — William Shakespeare
I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory,… — Martin Amis
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that… — C.S. Lewis
I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood. — George R. R. Martin
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. — William Shakespeare
He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and… — Cormac McCarthy
Atticus "What's this religion going to be called?" Oberon "Poochism" A:"and the name of this holy writ I will be typing for you?" O:"The dead… — Kevin Hearne

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