Epitaph Quotes - Page 7

• Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'

  Trent Reznor

  Girlfriend, Guitar, People

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• Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

  T. S. Eliot

  Phrases, Ends, Quartets

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.208, Faber & Faber

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• If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Nice, Use, World

  The Rivals act 3, sc. 3 (1775)

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• History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

  Washington Irving

  Fall, Character, Dust

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.

  C. Walton Lillehei

  Thinking, Would Be, World

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• 'You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most odious collectivist, who believes religiously that government predation is a condition for production. Or, put simply, that the parasite created the host.

  Ilana Mercer

  Believe, Government, Political

  "'You Didn't Build That': Obama's Political Epitaph". www.wnd.com. July 27, 2012.

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• Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

  Alexander MacLaren

  Mistake, Fool, Sin

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• [Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dust, Way, Excuse

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• I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my name remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

  Robert Emmet

  Country, Writing, Ignorance

  Charles Phillips, John Philpot Curran, Henry Grattan, Robert Emmet (1840). “Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan”, p.370

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• Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.

  Paul Washer

  This Generation, Generations

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• Let my epitaph be, "Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook."

  Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Lying

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