Book Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Please
rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as "the greatest talker in the country," used words which no one else understood, words which he did… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
Rumpty!" he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant. — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated. — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Talkativeness is a symptom of deep-seated pessimism. Without it there would be no pessimistic literature.” — Albert Vigoleis Thelen Copy Share Image
But in proverbe I have herde say,That who that wel his werk beginneth,The rather a good end he winneth. — John Gower Copy Share Image
“Should I get wind of another such rumor, I shall ruthlessly proceed against the person in question - not in a court of law,… — Arno Schmidt Copy Share Image
“We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
