Miscellaneous quotes
973 quotes from 439 people
- DGDavid Gemmell1948–2006Legend, Ch. 1
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948A New Earth (2005)
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book II, line 345
Robert E. Howard1906–1936“The Tower of the Elephant” (1933)They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book I, line 99 (tr. Henry T. Riley)What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Letter to George W. Eveleth (January 4, 1848).
Lord Byron1788–1824The Dream (1816), Stanza 3.- Eckhart Tolleborn 1948A New Earth (2005)
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?Good bye, proud world! I’m going home;
Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Poems (1847), Good-bye, st. 1A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted — nevermore!
Grace Hopper1906–1992The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper (1987)
