Proudest Blue Quotes & Sayings

Rid of the world's injustice, and his pain, He rests at last beneath God's veil of blue: Taken from life when life and love were new The youngest of the martyrs here is lain, Fair as Sebastian, and as early slain. No cypress shades his grave, no funeral yew, But gentle violets weeping with the dew Weave on his bones an ever-blossoming chain. O proudest heart that broke for misery! O sweetest lips since those of Mitylene! O poet-painter of our English land! Thy name was writ in water - it shall stand: And tears like mine will keep thy memory green, As Isabella did her Basil tree. Rome — Oscar Wilde

I believe how you looked was supposed to mean, something graver, more substantial: I'd gaze at my poor face and think, "It's still not there." Apparently I still do. What isn't there? Beauty? Not likely. Wisdom? Less. Is how we live or try to live supposed to embellish us? All I see is the residue of my other, failed faces.
But maybe what we're after is just a less abrasive regard: not "It's still not there," but something like "Come in, be still. — C. K. Williams

The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him. — H. C. Bailey

In looking for the keys of paradise, a pope may stoop a little; having found them, he should rise again. — Pope Sixtus V

My father used to say, "a day spent breathing is a good day — Raymond E. Feist

Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases. — Sam Walton

I have an inferiority complex, but it's not a very good one. — Steven Wright

You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential. — Natalie Dormer

I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy. — Sanjay Dutt