Companion Quotes - Page 28

• In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Long, Truth Is

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Theodore Roosevelt's Words of Wit and Wisdom”, p.16, Chartwell

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• I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people's most intimate moments. I discovered the privilege of seeing life in all its complexity, the thrill of learning something new every day. When I was behind a camera, it was the only place in the world I wanted to be.

  Lynsey Addario

  Photography, Intimate Moments, Learning Something New

  Lynsey Addario (2015). “It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War”, p.19, Penguin

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• To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drunkards need drinking partners. If I entered a cinema alone, God might plunge his arm through the roof of the auditorium booming in a stereophonic voice, 'And you, Crisp, what are you doing here?' I would never have dared reply, 'I'm just enjoying myself, Lord.'

  Quentin Crisp

  Drinking, Names, Voice

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 27, 1968.

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• Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.

  Arthur Ransome

  Summer, Book, Winter

  Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the right direction.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Moving, Buddhism

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• It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Loneliness, Spring, Loss

  William Kingdon Clifford (1999). “The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays”, Pyr Books

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• Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just start pulling out little fragments of songs from my head. A lot of times a melody will just occur to me and be my companion for a couple of months.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Couple, Airports

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• Dan Reynolds isn't ashamed to admit he hears 'things' others cannot. It has haunted his every walking moment for years. He doesn't like to talk about it much, but the voices in his head have become his constant companion. And when his inner muse speaks, Reynolds is quick to take notes.

  David Dunn

  Years, Voice, Speak

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• On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and
  truth. The Holy Spirit becomes his frequent and then constant companion.
  More and more he will stand in holy places and be entrusted with holy
  things. Just the opposite of cynicism and despair, his end is eternal
  life.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Hands, Opposites, Understanding

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• A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

  Jonathan Swift

  Coaches, Pleasant

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• Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

  Frances Wright

  Husband, Father, Wife

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.39

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• In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, World, Concern

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1727, Delphi Classics

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• He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Perfect, Gentleman, Intimacy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.127

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• It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Yoke, Foals

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Character, Half, Tongue

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.158

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• High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Distance, Men, Class

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1873). “The Intellectual Life: With a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, etched by Leopold Flameng”, p.328

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• When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

  Ouida

  Lying, Passion, Long

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.383, Ouida

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• Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.

  Rose Macaulay

  Independent, Self, Parent

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• The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

  Samuel Johnson

  Husband, Love Is, Coquette

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• Fire is a good companion for the mind.

  May Sarton

  Fire, Mind

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.197, Open Road Media

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• I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

  Leigh Hunt

  Perfect, Solitude, Want

  Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt (1862). “The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt”, p.37, London : Smith, Elder

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• I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mother, Artist, Wife

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• [On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.

  Dorothy Parker

  Ducks, Hands, Water

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• That I might live alone once with my gold!
  O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true:
  A man may trust it when his father cheats him,
  Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf!
  That which makes all men false, is true itself.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Brother, Money

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

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• Wicked companions invite us to hell.

  Henry Fielding

  Wicked, Hell, Invites

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