Horace Quotes, Art Quotes, Liars Quotes

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

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There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.

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There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

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Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

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But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

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Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

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I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

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Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

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Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

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Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.

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thou art the best o' the cut-throats

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The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

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This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

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Sleep is no mean art.

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