Tellence Quotes & Sayings

In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular: In proportion as the manners, customs, and amusements of a nation are cruel and barbarous, the regulations of its penal code will be severe. In proportion as men delight in battles, bullfights, and combats of gladiators, will they punish by hanging, burning, and the rack. — William Strunk Jr.

It's easy to love someone from a distance — John Green

You are my counterfeit mystery. My artificial company. My forged reality. My imaginary friend I can't eradicate. — Coco J. Ginger

No, it's not invented! What would be the point of 'inventing' Nazism? — Laurent Binet

I have been visited by every shade of grief and know that it doesn't come in black or white — Michael Robotham

The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections. — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Pretty armour doesn't make a warrior. — Mark Lawrence

To say he felt guilty would ascribe to him ethical borders that were lines on a map of a country that no longer existed. At least, that's what he told himself. Better to deny the existence of objective morality than to live in its shadow. Better to tell yourself that the world of right and wrong is not the world you belong to. In the bathroom mirror he saw the face of a man his seventeen-year-old self would have disdained with the vanity of someone yet unaware of the many means the world has to break him. — Anthony Marra

It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver's test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least talented person behind the wheel that she had ever taught. — Jane Smiley

I cannot conceive not writing. — Terry Pratchett