Children Quote by Lydia Davis

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same…

— Jane Austen

The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.

— Ruth Hurmence Green

Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

— William Shakespeare

Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like…

— Philip K. Dick

If your breath is very deep in the lungs, it will give you a good red blood. Good red blood, with the oxygen, is…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown, And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort, And mar the…

— William Cowper

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

— William Wordsworth

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man…

— Thomas De Witt Talmage

Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

— William Shakespeare

And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs…

— Anonymous

“Spleen Je suis comme le roi d'un pays pluvieux, Riche, mais impuissant, jeune et pourtant très vieux, Qui, de ses précepteurs méprisant les courbettes,…

— Charles Baudelaire