Authorship Quote by William Cowper Download Open image “Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.” — William Cowper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authorship Genius Intelligence Substitutes Wit Writing
Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“The ordinary writer has an unmistakable preference for this style, because it causes the reader to spend time and trouble in understanding that which… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would… — William P. Alford Copy Share Image
And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“When we don't pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If there's a will, there's a way! I feel larger than LIFE--and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have… — Donna Scrima-Black Copy Share Image
“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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