Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.
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William Shakespeare
Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]
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Samuel Johnson
He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.
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Anonymous
A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)
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Gertrude Stein
What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.
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Gustave Flaubert
More Quotes By Winston Churchill
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
