Essay Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold

“The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Fury...sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal....drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths”

— Salman Rushdie

“For anyone who has been taught that good equals small and silent, here is my heart with all its ugly tangles and splendid fury.”

— E. Lockhart

“Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.”

— William Hazlitt

“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Astonishment is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree, the inferior effects are admiration, reverence and respect.”

— Edmund Burke

“The bells, I say, the bells break down their tower; And swing I know not where. Their tongues engrave Membrane through marrow, my long-scattered…

— Hart Crane

“There seems a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting performances which have only genius,…

— Jane Austen

“A wicked tongue: Slander, gossip, cussing, sarcasm, poisonous tongue, bearing false witness, and murmuring.”

— Ana Mendez Ferrell

“Hell's bells, irony blows.”

— Jim Butcher

“What pleases is what is terrible, gentle, and poetic.”

— Georges Franju