Reese's Half-Hidden Quote Blog

time and love and doom, Those great blue grottoes where the rank intruder Is moved to think in rhyme.

ἅπαντʹ ἐπαχθῆ πλὴν θεοῖσι κοιρανεῖν

Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

A Russian is a Russian even if you fry them in butter.

And as the same stomach does not always relish the same kind of food, the same mind is not always to be fed on the same kind of writing.

We are on the edge of an abyss. But since then we have made a huge step forward.

Ah! Still, let's not overtax our brains. We'll play billiards--live like Tolstoy, spot of ploughing, then back to the novel!

...the tale was sure to answer, either as a stimulant or a soporific.

Don't take it as a matter of course, but as a remarkable fact, that pictures and fictitious narratives give us pleasure, occupy our minds.

I am aware of the pejorative associations of the word 'escapist,' but I insist that we need all the escapism we can get and even that isn't going to be enough.

I treat my books like I treat my shoes: the more I love them the shoddier they become.

I think a man spends his whole lifetime painting one picture or working on one piece of sculpture. The question of stopping is really a decision of moral considerations.

Hier stehe Ich und kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.

Many had died. But not she, not he; not yet.

After all, nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentleman.

There are few things I enjoy so much as talking to people about books which I have read and they haven't.

The largest virtue is to pay attention.

Surtout, Messieurs, point de zèle.

Wherefor, these petals to the winds I fling 'vail they or fail they as the winds shall please.

I travel not go anywhere but to go.