Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Edward G. Bulwer-LyttonAbout author
- Author's profession: Politician
- Nationality: english
- Born: May 25, 1803
- Died: January 18, 1873
Related Authors
Topics
Quotes currently Trending
Suttree surfaced from these fevered deeps to hear a maudlin voice chant latin by his bedside, what medieval ghost come to usurp his fallen corporeality. An oiled thumball redolent of lime and sage pondered his shuttered lids. Miserere mei, Deus ... His ears anointed, his lips ... omnis maligna discordia ... Bechrismed with scented oils he lay boneless in a cold euphoria. Japheth when you left your father's house the birds had flown. You were not prepared for such weathers. You'd spoke too...
Cormac McCarthy
I had no premonition that the Soviet Union was to become one of the most hideous tyrannies that the world had ever known, and Stalin the most cruel and unscrupulous of the merciless Russian tsars. This book should therefore be read as a basically reliable account of what the revolutionists thought they were doing in the interests of a better world.
Edmund Wilson