Then the world seemed none so bad, and I myself a sterling lad. And down in lovely muck I've lain, h...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or ne...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN This is for all ill-treated fellows - Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble ...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or ne...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN And how am I to face the odds, Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid, In a world...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN And how am I to face the odds, Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid, In a world ...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN This is for all ill-treated fellows - Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble A...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN From far, from eve and morning And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: ...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Little is the luck I've had, And oh, 'tis comfort small - To think that many another lad - Has had n...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN This is for all ill-treated fellows - Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble ...
ALFRED HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man
ALFRED HOUSMAN Little is the luck I've had, And oh, 'tis comfort small - To think that many another lad - Has had n...
ALFRED HOUSMAN Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write
ALFRED HOUSMAN That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot...
ALFRED HOUSMAN Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or ne...
ALFRED HOUSMAN Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not...
ALFRED HOUSMAN I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat
ALFRED HOUSMAN I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made
ALFRED HOUSMAN And how am I to face the odds, Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid, In a world...
ALFRED HOUSMAN Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must qu...
A.E. HOUSMAN Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sud...
A.E. HOUSMAN To stand up straight and tread the turning mill,
To lie flat and know nothing and be still,
A.E. HOUSMAN Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, ...
A.E. HOUSMAN The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, an...
A.E. HOUSMAN In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cun...
A.E. HOUSMAN Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A.E. HOUSMAN Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A.E. HOUSMAN The troubles of our proud and angry dust
Are from eternity, and shall not fail.
Bear them we...
A.E. HOUSMAN About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
A.E. HOUSMAN That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot...
A.E. HOUSMAN We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plan...
A.E. HOUSMAN And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After death has stopped the ears.
A.E. HOUSMAN If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I ...
A.E. HOUSMAN Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad; when the journey's...
A.E. HOUSMAN Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought ca...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to...
A.E. HOUSMAN Birds eat (the red berries) and that's how it gets spread around.
HEATHER HOUSMAN I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences w...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Stone, steel, dominions pass,
Faith too, no wonder;
So leave alone the grass
That I a...
A.E. HOUSMAN How clear, how lovely bright,
How beautiful to sight
Those beams of morning play;
Ho...
A.E. HOUSMAN The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War star...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which mo...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here I am in hell.
A.E. HOUSMAN I see
In many an eye that measures me
The mortal sickness of a mind
Too unhappy to be...
A.E. HOUSMAN The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the...
A.E. HOUSMAN Lie you easy, dream you light,
And sleep you fast for aye;
And luckier may you find the ni...
A.E. HOUSMAN Could man be drunk for ever
      With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at ...
A.E. HOUSMAN To-day I shall be strong,
No more shall yield to wrong,
Shall squander life no more;
...
A.E. HOUSMAN Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is, and we were young.
A.E. HOUSMAN June suns, you cannot store them
To warm the winter's cold,
The lad that hopes for heaven<...
A.E. HOUSMAN Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like ...
A.E. HOUSMAN All knots that lovers tie
Are tied to sever.
Here shall your sweetheart lie,
Untrue f...
A.E. HOUSMAN The thoughts of others
Were light and fleeting,
Of lovers' meeting
Or luck or fame. A.E. HOUSMAN Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as beautiful again
A.E. HOUSMAN It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary t...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A.E. HOUSMAN When I examine my mind and try to discern clearly in the matter, I cannot satisfy myself that there ...
A.E. HOUSMAN He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
    He would not stay for me to stand and...
A.E. HOUSMAN Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more mischief than they durst:
If in the breathles...
A.E. HOUSMAN Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered...
A.E. HOUSMAN If you cut it back in the winter, you run the risk of encouraging more growth.
HEATHER HOUSMAN Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 More things are wrought by prayer Than this...
ALFRED Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuck...
A. E. HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write...
A. E. HOUSMAN Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws f...
A. E. HOUSMAN Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to...
A. E. HOUSMAN If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. HOUSMAN That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot...
A. E. HOUSMAN Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, i...
A. E. HOUSMAN Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect u...
A. E. HOUSMAN The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A. E. HOUSMAN Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sha...
A. E. HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cun...
A. E. HOUSMAN The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, an...
A. E. HOUSMAN Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. HOUSMAN Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
A. E. HOUSMAN I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
A. E. HOUSMAN The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. HOUSMAN That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and canno...
A. E. HOUSMAN Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
My hand, though now my k...
A. E. HOUSMAN And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength and struck.
A. E. HOUSMAN And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.
A. E. HOUSMAN The fairies break their dances / And leave the printed lawn.
A. E. HOUSMAN White in the moon the long road lies.
A. E. HOUSMAN We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plan...
A. E. HOUSMAN Now, of my threescore years and ten, / Twenty will not come again.
A. E. HOUSMAN But men at whiles are sober / And think by fits and starts, / And if they think, they fasten / Their...
A. E. HOUSMAN They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, / The lads that will die in their glory and...
A. E. HOUSMAN Lovers lying two by two / Ask not whom they sleep beside, / And the bridegroom all night through / N...
A. E. HOUSMAN Made of earth and sea / His overcoat for ever, / And wears the turning globe.
A. E. HOUSMAN Think no more; 'tis only thinking / Lays lads underground.
A. E. HOUSMAN Into my heart an air that kills / From yon far country blows: / What are those blue remembered hills...
A. E. HOUSMAN Oh, when I was in love with you, / Then I was clean and brave.
A. E. HOUSMAN Here of a Sunday morning / My love and I would lie, / And see the coloured counties, / And hear the ...
A. E. HOUSMAN Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough.
A. E. HOUSMAN The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; / He has devoured the infant child. / The infant child is not awa...
A. E. HOUSMAN The rainy Pleiads wester, / Orion plunges prone, / The stroke of midnight ceases, / And I lie down a...
A. E. HOUSMAN The goal stands up, the keeper / Stands up to keep the goal.
A. E. HOUSMAN Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. HOUSMAN About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow.
A. E. HOUSMAN Tomorrow, more's the pity, / Away we both must hie, To air the ditty / and to earth I.
A. E. HOUSMAN Cambridge has seen many strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk, it has seen Porson sober. I am...
A. E. HOUSMAN No change, though you lie under / The land you used to plough.
A. E. HOUSMAN Mithridates, he died old.
A. E. HOUSMAN Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland...
A. E. HOUSMAN Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; / Breath's a ware that will not keep. / Up, lad; when the jour...
A. E. HOUSMAN The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey pl...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.
ALFRED MOLINA When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
ALFRED NOBEL No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ...
ALFRED ADLER Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
ALFRED TENNYSON I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were...
ALFRED MOLINA My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands ...
ALFRED JODL Major markets are a key factor in advertise and budgeting decisions.
ALFRED AMOROSO Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
ALFRED JARRY Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to...
ALFRED POLGAR It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster...
ALFRED JARRY It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back...
ALFRED TORRIE The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse whil...
ALFRED BUNN The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
ALFRED SHEINWOLD Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON ... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic)...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
ALFRED TENNYSON If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
ALFRED JARRY It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up ...
ALFRED JARRY Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people s...
ALFRED TENNYSON Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I am a part of all that I have met.
ALFRED TENNYSON What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
ALFRED MERCIER It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathe...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carryin...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagon...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
ALFRED JARRY In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
ALFRED JARRY I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically Engli...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
ALFRED NOBEL God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
ALFRED JARRY The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for the...
ALFRED SUTRO To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be ...
ALFRED JARRY Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is th...
ALFRED NOBEL Man know much more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t...
ALFRED ADLER The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationshi...
ALFRED ADLER I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any ho...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.
ALFRED GLOSSBRENNER Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incom...
ALFRED ADLER To be human means to feel inferior.
ALFRED ADLER We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the ...
ALFRED JARRY Man knows more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
ALFRED ADLER There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as ...
ALFRED ADLER Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
ALFRED NOBEL Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
ALFRED AUSTIN There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with ...
ALFRED ADLER