Bernard Berenson Quotes
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.Bernard Berenson
Quotes to Explore
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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
R. C. Sproul -
That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.
Angelina Jolie -
I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
Erykah Badu -
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
Vladimir Nabokov -
The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
William Hazlitt -
And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.
William Shakespeare
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal -
The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
Bil Keane -
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.
George Washington -
England is my home. I could never leave. I'd miss my family and friends too much.
Mel B Spice Girls -
A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.
Jonathan Swift
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I've been really in touch with my girly side.
Ravyn Lenae -
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
Moliere -
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
Oscar Wilde -
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
Bernard Berenson