Coningsby Quotes & Sayings

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. — Louis Nizer

I am tired in the Lord's work, but not tired of it. — George Whitefield

Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again. — Annie Dillard

I'm here to sing. — Little Richard

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it. — Ernest Hemingway,

A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery. — Vladimir Lenin

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. — John Milton

You are God's image. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The two thought themselves alone. But all the while, one watched with the night-wide eyes of love. While they paced the pebbled paths between the silent flowers' spiked arrays, sage Thyme spied upon each pale sigh, peeping between bloom and leaf. And while they sat side by side and hand in hand on the stained stone bench beneath the spreading wisteria, Thyme watched unwinking from the midnight face of the mute sundial. And while they lay lazy on the soft grass, swearing the sweet oaths of love and longing, and whispering as they parted that though long lives might pass like a night and the New Sun sunder the centuries, yet never should they ever part, Thyme crept and cried, counting seconds that spilled with the sand from the hourglass, and scenting the soft breezes that cooled the child's burning cheek with his sad spice. The — Gene Wolfe

People in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad. — Otto Weininger

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part. — Gerhard Richter

Benjamin Disraeli had anticipated Erewhon's fears in his novel Coningsby: "The mystery of mysteries," he wrote, "is to view machines making machines, a spectacle that fills the mind with curious and even awful speculation. — Ronald Wright