Maria Luisa Bombal Biografia Quotes & Sayings

He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.
[He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.] — George Herbert

[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the rest in virtue, must tend to sink below the average. — Bertrand Russell

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit
With the same spirit that its author writ;
Survey the WHOLE, nor seek slight faults to find
Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind;
... In wit, as nature, what effects our hearts
Is not th'exactness of peculiar parts;
'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all. — Alexander Pope

The sensation of colour cannot be accounted for by the physicist's objective picture of light-waves. — Erwin Schrodinger

I make a new discovery that totally blows; dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks. — Karen Marie Moning

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. — Jeanette Winterson