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Wells Quotes (page 244)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart quote: "To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an..."
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The side whiskers indeed were quite handsome. But he stroked them so very zealously that looking at him, one might very well think that first just the side whiskers had been brought into the world, and then later the gentleman was attached to them in order to stroke them. Fyodor Dostoevsky
You talk of her mind being unsettled. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity ! From pity and charity ! He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares! Emily Bronte
TOM!"No answer."TOM!"No answer."What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!"No answer. The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service-- she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. Mark Twain
Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. Oscar Wilde
The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane? or put your children on a plane? if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks. Rush Limbaugh
For I perceived that man's estate is as a citadel: he may throw down the walls to gain what he calls freedom, but then nothing of him remains save a dismantled fortress, open to the stars. And then begins the anguish of not-being. Far better for him were it to achieve his truth in the homely smell of blazing vine shoots, or of the sheep he has to shear. Truth strikes deep, like a well. A gaze that wanders loses sight of God. And that wise man who, keeping his thoughts in hand, knows little... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought William Shakespeare
You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for hourse and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. "Floods" is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, that valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the... Toni Morrison
It was my time to assume ascendency. My powers were in-play and in force. I told him to forbear question or remark; I desired him to leave me: I must and would be alone. He obeyed at once. Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Where, indeed, does the moon not look well? What is the..."
Where, indeed, does the moon not look well? What is the scene, confined or expansive, which her orb does not hallow? Charlotte Bronte
You are...Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence." -Bella Stephenie Meyer
J. Michael Straczynski quote: "If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the..."
If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones. J. Michael Straczynski
The only way to not think about money is to have a great deal of it."You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe. Edith Wharton
For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won. L. M. Montgomery

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