Known Quote by Patrick Kavanagh Download Open image “A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.” — Patrick Kavanagh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Known Men Truth
“No man who cares about originality will ever be original. It's the man who's only thinking about doing a good job or telling the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of security on… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen,… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion, the damned are damned because they enjoy being… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Ancient Ireland sweeping In again with all its unbaptized beauty: The calm evening, The whitethorn blossoms, The smell from ditches that were not Christian. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I want to be known as a good major-leaguer, and good major-leaguers work to become good. — Alex Rodriguez Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I always bump into people that Ive met. Not great friends, but if I bump into somebody Ive known and I wont recognise them.… — Dario Franchitti Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image