Long Quotes - Page 26

• The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

  Alexander Pope

  Wife, Ease, Helping

  "An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" l. 131 (1735)

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• Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Views, Musical, Style

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.281

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• Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Thrice, Billing, Saved

  Richard Harris Barham (1867). “The Ingoldsby legends; or, Mirth and marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby. Carmine ed”, p.226

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• The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Law, Forgotten, Guilty

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• I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?.

  William J. Clinton

  Christian, Hate, Hatred

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• A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Husband, Law, Wife

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• Every once in a while your world stands still... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone.

  Art Buchwald

  Friendship, Important, Gone

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• I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

  Robert Benchley

  Travel, Speak English, Accents

  1938 After1903-What?

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• Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.

  Doris Lessing

  Women, Thinking, Numbers

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

  Mortimer Collins

  Wise, Fate, Past

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• I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies.

  Joan Collins

  Crush, Baby, Men

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• So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Taken, New Testament, Norm

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.382, A&C Black

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• When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

  Andy Warhol

  Running, People, Interesting

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

  Dante Alighieri

  Wind, Earth, Lasts

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatoria, Song XI, 100, 1321.

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• It's been a long time since I've had champagne.

  Anton Chekhov

  Champagne, Long Time

  Anton Chekhov (2007). “The Complete Plays”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth.

  Terry Pratchett

  Forever, Enough, Being True

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “The Truth: Stage Adaptation”, p.125, A&C Black

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• I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Past, Thinking

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• Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!

  Paul Gauguin

  Photography, Intelligent, Men

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please; nothing satisfies me.

  Claude Monet

  Frustration, Thinking, Painting

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

  Sarah Doudney

  Autumn, Past, Wind

  Sarah Doudney (2017). “Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns”, p.71, Lulu.com

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• Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, Form

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.

  James Dickey

  Life, Running, Tides

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• You have been an apprentice long enough; it is now time to shed your protective skin. Trust!

  Mooji

  Trust, Skins, Enough

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• No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.

  Horace Greeley

  Kitchen, Resources, Should

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• Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.

  Tony Blair

  Attitude, Loss, Opportunity

  "Tony Blair's Mansion House speech: full text". www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2005.

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