I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.


Edward Albee

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy t...
EDWARD ALBEE
I'm a normal person. You say something about me, I'm going to say something back, funny or n...
AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS
I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I...
DEMI MOORE
I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like pla...
TYRONE POWER
It annoys me a little when people try to be positive when I don't play my best. I play to win. I...
CAMILO VILLEGAS
For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
MANTI TE'O
If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that...
OZWALD BOATENG
I just want to do good material. If I'm right for it, and it connects with me, and the material ...
SAM UNDERWOOD
To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but...
CHARLES POLLOCK
I'm quite discreet. I think I'd rather focus on my work. So, I only speak when I have someth...
DELPHINE ARNAULT
It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what c...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY
Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'...
KRISTEN STEWART
Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was alway...
NATHAN LANE
Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I&...
NAS
All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jo...
DREW FULLER
It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there be...
JOSH BOWMAN
I'm most comfortable definitely when I'm on the ice. I love to play. It's something that...
SIDNEY CROSBY
Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter....
TOM STOPPARD
If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, th...
FELIX HERNANDEZ
I'm a Scrabble nut, and I need something to do while I'm travelling. Scrabble keeps me occup...
SUZI QUATRO
This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'Go...
GARY SHEFFIELD
In the fight with Hunt, all I can say is it was a good night for me. I'm happy to get out of the...
STIPE MIOCIC
I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have noth...
VON MILLER
My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'...
GARY CLARK, JR.
I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I...
COLUMBUS SHORT
I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do ...
ROSIE O'DONNELL
I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constra...
LILY JAMES
I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my hu...
OLIVIA COLMAN
I'm happy that I can focus on my body a little bit. I'm not happy to get surgery, but I'...
DWYANE WADE
I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categori...
MILTON GLASER
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something tha...
ANSEL ADAMS
Considering all that's happened in my life, I feel like I'm a pretty levelheaded person that...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO
I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That'...
GEORGE STRAIT
I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it&...
KIM KARDASHIAN
I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to pract...
RICKY WILLIAMS
The typical response from people when I tell them I'm diabetic is, 'Oh, I'm sorry to hea...
CHARLIE KIMBALL
I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my...
PAT BURNS
I'm not a great actor - let's face it. I don't have a great deal of scope. There are cer...
STEVE MCQUEEN
In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to ...
BILL SKARSGARD
I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I ...
EMINEM
I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I ...
VAN MORRISON
It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not...
TERRY FOX
I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I&...
EDDIE MARSAN
I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happ...
DAN AYKROYD
I'm not going to say that I'm perfect. I do have fashion crises.
CAROLINA HERRERA
I'm a very stubborn person. I think it has helped me over my career. I'm sure it has hindere...
DAVID BECKHAM
I'm so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I'm really honored to be able to pus...
JESSIE J
Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a...
L. RON HUBBARD
I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a...
LINUS TORVALDS
If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get som...
QUINTON AARON
I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scru...
ELIZA COUPE
I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmo...
PAUL SIMON
Once I've ascertained that I'm safe and I'm with a director who is taking care of me, th...
JULIANNE MOORE
I'm from a very violent city. I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana, and it's good to see me b...
JASON MITCHELL
If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm h...
ICE T
I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to...
VICTORIA BECKHAM
I'm not one of those people who is not looking forward to getting old. I'm happy with my lif...
DAVID BECKHAM
If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether ...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had...
RICHARD MARX
When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,&#...
DAN QUINN
On the microphone, I'm not scared to step up and say, 'This is my ability, this is how good ...
STORMZY
I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy ...
SHARON STONE
I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for i...
EAMONN WALKER
I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees ...
WILLIAM HURT
When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm u...
NATE HOLLAND
I'd like to play something classical. I'm in the Strindberg society, and we do readings of S...
TERI GARR
Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
R. LEE ERMEY
I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happ...
JACK MA
It's been difficult to find roles that are independent, strong, and self-assured; I always say I...
LEVEN RAMBIN
I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So...
SEAN PAUL
I'd say that I'm a very friendly, outgoing, happy person who just wants to make the people a...
CINDY BUSBY
I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspi...
HUGH LAURIE
You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big op...
BEN CARSON
My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing, and I'm having fun, then just continue to do...
SELENA GOMEZ
I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the...
MINDY KALING
They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'...
ETTA JAMES
I'm not happy to be here. I'm just happy to be!
JIM VALVANO
When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.
DAN FARMER
I'm fortunate: I can play as long as I want to play. There's no coach or trainer who is goin...
LLEYTON HEWITT
I'm conservative, and people know where I stand. They can trust me to do what I say I'm goin...
SHARRON ANGLE
I'm not going to say that a very young Charlie Weber is without his indiscretions. But not anymo...
CHARLIE WEBER
For me, if I'm going to do a play, I prefer to do something with language that I don't get t...
DAVID DENMAN
I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, ...
RANI MUKERJI
I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'T...
ZARA LARSSON
I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy wi...
ASHLEE SIMPSON
I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
KAJAL AGGARWAL
I'm on the rise and whatnot, but I'm not the man to say, 'All right, world, here's g...
STORMZY
I'm deeply and passionately involved in the design process. I'm a brash American, and if my ...
MEGHAN MARKLE
I'm not very happy. I'm frustrated with human beings. I'm the guy who just wants to smac...
DARON MALAKIAN
When I'm rapping, like, a turn up song, I'm thinking about what the people want to hear; thi...
TINK
I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; ...
BRENDON URIE
I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on...
TAYLOR SWIFT
It's funny the way life works. Sometimes you go around in a weird path to find out exactly what ...
HAYLIE DUFF
I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giv...
DREW ROY
When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I...
BRUCE FORSYTH
I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go ou...
KEN JEONG
The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my rank...
VENUS WILLIAMS

More Edward Albee

He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
EDWARD ALBEE
What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid...
EDWARD ALBEE
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
EDWARD ALBEE
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
EDWARD ALBEE
If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
EDWARD ALBEE
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.
George: No, but we must carry...
EDWARD ALBEE
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly fu...
EDWARD ALBEE
My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up po...
EDWARD ALBEE
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
EDWARD ALBEE
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an ext...
EDWARD ALBEE
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not
EDWARD ALBEE
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance...
EDWARD ALBEE
A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
EDWARD ALBEE
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end...
EDWARD ALBEE
I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: ...
EDWARD ALBEE
I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy t...
EDWARD ALBEE
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
EDWARD ALBEE
I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
EDWARD ALBEE
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
EDWARD ALBEE
The gods too are fond of a joke.
EDWARD ALBEE
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.
EDWARD ALBEE
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an...
EDWARD ALBEE
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad ...
EDWARD ALBEE
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am ...
EDWARD ALBEE
I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone...
EDWARD ALBEE
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance corre...
EDWARD ALBEE
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
EDWARD ALBEE
HONEY: (Apologetically, holding up her brandy bottle) I peel labels.
GEORGE: We all peel labels...
EDWARD ALBEE
Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people w...
EDWARD ALBEE
I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.
EDWARD ALBEE
If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
EDWARD ALBEE
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
EDWARD ALBEE
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive i...
EDWARD ALBEE
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
EDWARD ALBEE
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.
EDWARD ALBEE
... what I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing cards when you're a...
EDWARD ALBEE
You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your l...
EDWARD ALBEE
I write to find out what I'm talking about.
EDWARD ALBEE
You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.
EDWARD ALBEE
It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell.
EDWARD ALBEE
If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
EDWARD ALBEE
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.
EDWARD ALBEE
Addiction is a repeated temporary...stilling. I am concerned with peace...not mere relief.
EDWARD ALBEE
I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up...
EDWARD ALBEE
A lot of policy makers have no idea what a very small percentage of what they think is affordable ho...
GAYLE ALBEE
I'm learning a lot of new things. I thought I had reached an age where I could forget what I did kno...
GAYLE ALBEE
This has saved my life. It allows me the stability of a decent home, to function as positive element...
GAYLE ALBEE
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
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER
If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
EDWARD HOPPER
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
EDWARD HOPPER
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER
Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
EDWARD HOPPER
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before...
EDWARD HOPPER
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio...
EDWARD HOPPER
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati...
EDWARD HOPPER
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress...
EDWARD HOPPER
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this idea...
EDWARD HOPPER
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
EDWARD HOPPER
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER
Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ...
EDWARD HOPPER
After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a...
EDWARD HOPPER
More of me comes out when I improvise.
EDWARD HOPPER
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER
The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
EDWARD HOPPER
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
EDWARD BOND
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l...
EDWARD LEAR
The simple act of caring is heroic.
EDWARD ALBERT
I am all for the short and merry life.
EDWARD FITZGERALD
I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o...
EDWARD BROOKE
I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
EDWARD DMYTRYK
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
EDWARD BOND
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ...
EDWARD NORTON
The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON
Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT
I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN
The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG
All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL
How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG
Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG
Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG
Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG
One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG
Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, ...
EDWARD YOUNG
To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN
I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
JOHN EDWARD
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD
Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and...
EDWARD BACH
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as...
EDWARD GIBBON
The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass...
EDWARD ZWICK
Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have...
EDWARD ZWICK
It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
EDWARD LEAR
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
EDWARD LANGLEY
We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick......
EDWARD HEATH
I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
EDWARD FITZGERALD
I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa...
EDWARD ZWICK
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
EDWARD YOUNG
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
EDWARD YOUNG
When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
EDWARD YOUNG
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
EDWARD GIBBON
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
EDWARD GIBBON
Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery! Whate...
EDWARD YOUNG
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE
To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
EDWARD YOUNG
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...
EDWARD ABBEY
Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN
Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG
And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi...
EDWARD ABBEY
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER
You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ...
EDWARD FLAHERTY
God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe...
EDWARD EVERETT
For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
EDWARD YOUNG
The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
EDWARD ABBEY
كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از...
EDWARD SAID
You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h...
EDWARD SAID
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig...
EDWARD EVERETT
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
EDWARD YOUNG
Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei...
EDWARD VARESE
It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ...
EDWARD GIBBON
Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lou...
EDWARD MOORE
The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c...
EDWARD RUSCHA
I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac...
EDWARD FITZGERALD
Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
EDWARD YOUNG
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
EDWARD GIBBON
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
EDWARD YOUNG
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th...
EDWARD GIBBON
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d...
EDWARD GIBBON
True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
EDWARD WEEKS
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
EDWARD YOUNG
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin...
EDWARD COCKER
Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you...
EDWARD COCKER
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
EDWARD KOCH
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
EDWARD KOCH
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:...
EDWARD ABBEY
For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.
EDWARD ABBEY
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha...
EDWARD ABBEY
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination
EDWARD ABBEY
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i...
EDWARD ABBEY
High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a...
EDWARD ABBEY
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
EDWARD ABBEY
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te...
EDWARD ABBEY
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...
EDWARD BELLAMY
For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope...
EDWARD MORRIS
I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...
EDWARD ABBEY
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
EDWARD LEAR
When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk...
EDWARD TELLER
Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY
One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...
EDWARD ABBEY
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
EDWARD GIBBON
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
EDWARD GARDNER
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the colde...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
EDWARD FAIRFAX
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD WINDSOR
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse...
EDWARD STEICHEN
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...
EDWARD STEICHEN
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a...
EDWARD STEICHEN
Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
EDWARD WESTON
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
EDWARD EGGLESTON
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
EDWARD THOMAS
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
EDWARD GIBBON
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON