Epigrams Quote by James Russell Lowell Download Open image “Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.” — James Russell Lowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Epigrams Half Pleasant Stories Suits Taste Vices
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer’s own experience.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.” — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams. — Martial Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
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