"Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate……" — William Ernest Henley
"Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous and abominable, he very often writes so well that you are loth to believe he could ever have written thus extremely ill."
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William Ernest Henley
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31 Quotes by William Ernest Henley
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Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which…
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Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
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Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on…
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So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some…
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Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
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Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured…
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Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.
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A late lark twitters from the quiet skies.
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Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life,…
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And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.
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Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to…
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[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin,…
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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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The devil sees nothing more abominable than a truly humble christian, for [that Christian] is just the opposite of [the…
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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them…
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
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How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such…
— Albert Einstein
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... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable…
— Martin Luther
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Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but…
— Susan Sontag
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Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches,…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and…
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