Aristotle Quote by Søren Kierkegaard

“He didn't have the loose-limbed cockiness of a man her age, springing to attention with the desire to impress everyone with his agility and…

— Vivienne Lorret

“Some swore he was a maid in man's attire, For in his looks were all that men desire, A pleasant smiling cheeke, a speaking…

— Deborah Harkness

“John never felt the insecurity that underlay the surfaces of most men, and in his mind, he could easily conjure up those male colleagues…

— Ray Smith

When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of…

— Michel de Certeau

“They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal…

— Christopher Paolini

“The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken:…

— Georgette Heyer

“Indeed, a faint hypnopædic prejudice in favour of size was universal. Hence the laughter of the women to whom he made proposals, the practical…

— Aldous Huxley

“How, in so short a time, she had passed from intoxication to disgust we will only seek to explain by supposing that this mysterious…

— Virginia Woolf

“Obscurely awaited, immanent and concealed, it rouses to such a paroxysm, at the moment when at last it makes itself felt, those other pleasures…

— Marcel Proust

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“Even there, intimacy evolved its alchemy. A solemn marble stairway led to corridors covered with red carpets, upon which one moved noiselessly.”

— Jean Genet

“Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whatever our business or amusement--however…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne