Book Quote by Oscar Wilde

When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it…

— Mahatma Gandhi

self-pity is better than none.

— Phyllis Diller

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no…

— Ezra Pound

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

— Og Mandino

The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.

— Philip Pullman

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

— Dan Simmons

“I am a shadow. I walk the wet roads under the dim light of the pale lamps, in the darkest hour of the cold…

— Foaad Ahmad

Another way of saying "put it in the Book" would be that each poem we write pops up in the city of poetry, where…

— Gregory Orr

“My thinking, far from being clearer than a crystal, was tortuous. I would read the same passage over and over again only to realize…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“A book, a poem, a play — they start as fantasms but they end up as things, like a box of crackers or an…

— Arthur Miller

The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way.

— Lisa Schwarzbaum