Escritas — Quotes

Aristóteles

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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Mark Twain

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Matthew Arnold

Who most has suffered, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A sight to dream of, not to tell!

Daniel Defoe

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And ’twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Our life is made by the death of others.

William Shakespeare

If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

Raymond Chandler

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

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Aristóteles

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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Mark Twain

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

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Matthew Arnold

Oh, born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o’ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife.

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William Shakespeare

I drink to the general joy of the whole table.

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Daniel Defoe

From this amphibious ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natur’d thing, an Englishman.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

William Shakespeare

Cursed be my tribe, If I forgive him!

Theodore Roethke

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

Aristóteles

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

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Mark Twain

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

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Matthew Arnold

Still nursing the unconquerable hope, Still clutching the inviolable shade.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all!

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Daniel Defoe

In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven.

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Leonardo da Vinci

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

William Shakespeare

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Samuel Johnson

Read over your compositions and, when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

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Aristóteles

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Mark Twain

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

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Matthew Arnold

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

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William Shakespeare

What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm’d rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

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Daniel Defoe

And of all plagues with which mankind are curs’d, Ecclesiastic tyranny’s the worst.

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Leonardo da Vinci

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

William Shakespeare

A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Walter Scott

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

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Aristóteles

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Mark Twain

Don't dream your life, but live your dream

Matthew Arnold

Her cabined, ample spirit It fluttered and failed for breath. Tonight it doth inherit The vasty hall of death.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

Daniel Defoe

All men would be tyrants if they could.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

William Shakespeare

For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spet upon my Jewish gaberdine.

Anton Chekhov

When you depict sad or unlucky people, and want to touch the reader’s heart, try to be colder—it gives their grief, as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief. As it is, your heroes weep and you sigh. Yes, you must be cold.

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Aristóteles

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Mark Twain

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Matthew Arnold

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

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William Shakespeare

Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal mockery, hence!

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Daniel Defoe

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

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Leonardo da Vinci

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

William Shakespeare

Shall I bend low, and in a bondman’s key, With bated breath, and whispering humbleness, Say this.

Khalil Gibran

It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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