Quotes with leading-man

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  • William S. Burroughs Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Agnes Smedley Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Billy Wilder Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Ovid Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    British poet (1340 - 1400)
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  • William Shakespeare O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Cowper O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Jonathan Swift Observation is an old man's memory.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • John Selden Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'Tis most meddled with by other people.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Charles Dickens Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Mark Twain Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Ruskin Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Anatole France Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Of all the works of man I like best
    Those which have been used.
    The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
    The knives and forks whose wooden handles
    Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
    Seemed to me the noblest.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Of all the works of man [Von allen Werken] (c. 193
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Chimamanda Adichie Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.
    We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014)
    Chimamanda Adichie
    Nigerian poet (1977 - )
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