William Congreve Quotes

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

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• To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Natural
  • U.S.
  • Breathing

• All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Man
  • Respect

• I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Day
  • Romantic
  • Flowers

• We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Help
  • Rich
  • Down

• I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Music
  • History
  • Training

• Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.

  

  T-Pain
  • Know
  • Me
  • Him

• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Food

• Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Think
  • Trump

• We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Wish
  • Dog
  • Cat

• Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

  

  Sabine Lisicki
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Tennis

• Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • You
  • Security
  • Networking

• I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Try

• I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Book
  • First
  • Late

• We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • History
  • Doubt
  • Unique

• Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Play
  • Internet
  • Rules

• Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • American
  • Want
  • Attention

• When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Reminds

• I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.

  

  Leslie Moonves
  • People
  • Good
  • Career

• What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?

  

  David R. Brower
  • Guy

• I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.

  

  John McCain
  • Work
  • Long
  • War

• I had a couple of experiences as a kid with animals where I hurt them, kind of unintentionally, and when I saw that a human being can hurt an animal it really affected me. And my kids...they became animal rights activists.

  

  Sean Astin
  • Kids
  • Couple
  • Hurt

• No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

  

  William Congreve
  • Hurt