Quotes with truth-and-a-half

Quotes 6501 till 6520 of 25898.

  • Winston Churchill He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Horace He has half the deed done who has made a beginning
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Horace He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Lord Arthur Balfour He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Margaret Halsey He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Horace He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Alan K. Simpson He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Ben Jonson He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.
    Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Douglas Adams He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • John Dryden He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Samuel Johnson He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Voltaire He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Horace He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Shakespeare He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Agatha Christie He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.
    Murder for Christmas (1939)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Henry James He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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