William Cowper Quotes

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

William Cowper

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• I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Party
  • Myself

• The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Live
  • Past

• One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Man
  • Another
  • Remorse

• I don't believe in regret.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Believe
  • Regret

• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Painting
  • Matter
  • Pleasure

• Work is both my living and my pleasure.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Living

• I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

  

  Orson Welles
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Great
  • Painting
  • Pleasure

• I've done a lot of things that I regret.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Done
  • Things
  • Regret

• I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Regret
  • More
  • Beliefs

• Never regret what you don't write.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • You
  • Never
  • Regret

• My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Pleasure
  • Create
  • Copy

• I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Time
  • Work
  • Pleasure

• Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

  

  Abraham Clark
  • God
  • Hands
  • Pleasure

• I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don't regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Age

• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Pleasure

• This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Book
  • Hands
  • Pleasure

• It's better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Better
  • Regret
  • Prepare

• Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Pleasure
  • Wells

• I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • Pleasure
  • Stuff
  • Singer

• I don't think I have any regrets, but I can tell you what I learned from mistakes or failures. I've had plenty of those. I just don't believe in regret, and my economic world is not what I would ever have imagined; I'm financially free.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • World
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I made 'The Bourne Identity,' and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the 'James Bond' franchise.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Identity

• I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Acting
  • Sure
  • Neurotic

• Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

  

  William Cowper
  • Pleasure
  • Regret
  • Remorse