Quotes with book-friends

Quotes 861 till 880 of 1030.

  • Auguste Rodin To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Robertson Davies To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • George Eliot To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John Locke To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Aleister Crowley To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Thomas Jefferson To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Yoshida Kenko To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.
    Yoshida Kenko
    Japanese author and monk (1283 - 1350)
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  • Brenda Song To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Bernie Sanders Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Tom Hanks is fantastic - he is one of my dad's good friends, and he's very warm and funny.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Robertson Davies Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Blake Mycoskie Traveling as much as I do, I get lonely sometimes. I have friends now in cities all over the world, so I get to be social, but it's hard to have the deep meaningful relationships, especially an intimate one. With my guy friends, I can show up once a month and go to dinner with them and they're happy.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Lady Randolph Churchill Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
    Lady Randolph Churchill
    American-born British socialite, mother of Winston Churchill
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  • Arlene Francis Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
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  • Oscar Wilde True friends stab you in the front.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ben Jonson True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Antonio Porchia Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Joseph Conrad Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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