William Cobbett Quotes

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?

William Cobbett

William Cobbett

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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.

Ferdinand Marcos
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Nathalie Sarraute
- People
- Poetry
- Poet
I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

Mackenzie Astin
- Time
- Writing
- Better
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

J. Carter Brown
- Time
- Experience
- Movie
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Zane Grey
- Start
- Difficulty
- Ordeal
When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.

Kate Atkinson
- Book
- First
- Everyone