Humor Quote by Edgar Lee Masters

“... a new patina whitening the walls with marks of memories, all running together as if the memories themselves aspired to be the walls…

— Kevin Powers

“A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest!”

— Robert Burns

“Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept…

— William Shakespeare

“That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol - blind,…

— Charlotte Brontë

“At that time, for the thought written in stone, there existed a privilege perfectly comparable to our present liberty of the press. It was…

— Victor Hugo

“I followed the curve that rose from the capitals of the semicircle of columns and ran along the ribs of the vault toward the…

— Umberto Eco

“[D]espite the patina of civility coating most of modern society, underneath it is a thick layer of savagery.”

— Gene Doucette

“On another occasion, he opined, "But, if ever forgetful of her past and present glory, she shall cease to be 'the land of the…

— Charles River Editors

“I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction…

— Charles Dickens

“If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile,…

— Wilfred Owen

“Tabula rasa… it’s from Aristotle. It means blank slate.”

— Lauren Hawkeye

“A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them.…

— Joe Abercrombie