Homage Quote by Charles Dickens

“We all pay an involuntary homage to antiquity – a “blind homage,” as Bacon calls it in his “Novum Organum,” which tends greatly to…

— Charles Mackay

All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Frankly," said the Doctor, "I am at a loss to understand my own emotions. I can think of no entertainment that fills me with…

— Evelyn Waugh

The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by…

— William Ellery Channing

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

— Taylor Caldwell

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of…

— Henry Fielding

Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time…

— William Hazlitt

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate…

— Ambrose Bierce

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

— Sarah Bernhardt

A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or…

— Jack Kerouac

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

— Paul Bowles