Able Quote by Robert Bolt

“He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess,…

— Jack London

“He was not the type to say that experience is all to the good, that nothing is wasted in life, that everyone we meet…

— André Aciman

“Thomas had inherited his father’s reason without his ruthlessness and his mother’s love of good without her tendency to pursue it. His plan for…

— Flannery O'Connor

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Fully aware that life is too short for the choice to be anything but irreparable, he had been distressed to discover that he felt…

— Milan Kundera

Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“He knew no future then, no kind of life except the life he led. He fled the cave-bear over the rocks full of iron…

— H.G. Wells

“He suffered incessantly from the fact that his critical faculties transcended his constructive capacities. In a manner of speaking, his critical sense robbed him…

— Albert Einstein

“He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the thirst for…

— Nikolai Gogol

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“Thomas finally tired of playing with me mentally and moved into phase two of his obsession to rid himself of me. I was informed…

— Sara Niles

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans