"There's no money in poetry, but then there's……" — Robert Graves
"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."
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Robert Graves
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75 Quotes by Robert Graves
Robert Graves has 75 quotes on this site.
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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to…
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat…
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of…
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought,…
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More Money Quotes
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one of 14,022 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
— Richard Armour
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I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If…
— Frank Abagnale
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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to…
— Chester A. Arthur
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There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
— Mary Kay Ash
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Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
— Jane Austen
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
— Jane Austen
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