Beli Cabral Quotes & Sayings

Is there a place, save one the poet sees, A land of love, of liberty, and ease; Where labour wearies not, nor cares suppress Th' eternal flow of rustic happiness; Where no proud mansion frowns in awful state, Or keeps the sunshine from the cottage-gate; Where young and old, intent on pleasure, throng, And half man's life is holiday and song? Vain search for scenes like these! no view appears, By sighs unruffled or unstain'd by tears; Since vice the world subdued and waters drown'd, Auburn and Eden can no more be found. — George Crabbe

It is simple to catch a man, all you need to know is the right bait. — James Clavell

You did anything to bury me, but you forgot that I was a seed. — Dinos Christianopoulos

Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature ... But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we earn the way we end up looking. Time, it seems, gives us all a chance to really be beautiful. — Ann Curry

Even when there were good wars to write about, writers such as Jane Austen wrote novels concerning marriage. They usually went like this:
'You're being a real jerk.'
'Sorry about that. I was secretly helping you.'
'Oh, you're wonderful! And you have so much money! You're my new favorite cousin!'
'Let's get married.
The End. — Dan Wilbur

He argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English. — Susanna Clarke

I'm a walking billboard. That's my pleasure. — Isabella Blow

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen. — Ted Koppel

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it. — Leonard Cohen

But I didn't know that then. I washed my hands in the cold, uncaring sea, and my conscience was as silent and remote as the mute, unreachable stars. — Gregory David Roberts