Sebastian Faulks Quotes
I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.
Sebastian Faulks
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
Imelda Marcos
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I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.
Nancy Lopez
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
Rita Mae Brown
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When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they may?' When your ladyship has ceased to be the most admired woman in Europe, namely, when I am in my grave.
Emma Orczy
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In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
Abraham Lincoln
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The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
William Hazlitt
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Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
William J. H. Boetcker
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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
William Penn
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Either our history shall with full mouth
Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,
Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.
William Shakespeare
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Minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
Pass'd over to the end they were created,
Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
Ah, what a life were this!
William Shakespeare
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.
George Washington
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To me the Muses truly gave An envied and a happy lot: E'en when I lie within the grave, I cannot, shall not, be forgot.
Sappho
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If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.
Saul Griffith
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They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
Francis Marion Crawford
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A shortage of coffins was one thing, but then London began running out of graves.
Catharine Arnold
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I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty.
Catherine Deneuve
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The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what's behind." "But lest you are my enemy, I must enquire." "O no, my dear, let all that be, What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?"
William Butler Yeats
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Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!"
William Lloyd Garrison
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The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.
William Gibson
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I've never seen you hide from anyone before. He must do something crazy to you.
Sarah Addison Allen
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I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.
Sebastian Faulks
