Janus Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“You don’t see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.”

— Frank Herbert

I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste…

— Albert Camus

“Janus nods. “We’re haggling over two issues. A yearly subscription. It’s a pig in a poke. Two pigs.” “In”

— Mariam Petrosyan

Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing,…

— Charles Lamb

“Rape we all know is the easiest charge to make and most difficult to prove,” Wura paused and sighed again “But with Justice Janus,…

— S. A. David

“He can't die! He's the bloody King of Winter." "Don't be absurd," said Bob, rolling an eye at the wounded Janus. "Just because he's…

— Lesley Livingston

A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.

— Gordon Korman

“If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me, I’d have killed myself. I think he was too hung up. I’m glad Kurt Vonnegut…

— Ray Bradbury

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps…

— Ray Bradbury

Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God…

— Honore de Balzac

“Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...”

— Arthur Schopenhauer