Edwin Muir Quotes

Yours, my love, is the right human face.

Edwin Muir

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• I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.

  

  Kenneth Burke
  • People

• Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • God
  • Faith
  • Circumstances

• Ah, a German and a genius! A prodigy, admit him!

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Genius
  • German
  • Prodigy

• At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Christmas
  • Bargains
  • Yacht

• To me Christianity was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

  

  Bill Haywood
  • Bible
  • Christianity
  • Profane

• Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not writing competent reviews of the unimportant.

  

  Jack Green T. Rex
  • Reviews
  • Critic
  • Masterpieces

• Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

  

  Simon Mawer
  • Childhood
  • Novelists
  • Syndrome

• The most gratifying thing, with no question, is making records.

  

  Roland Orzabal
  • Records

• It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Regions
  • Travelled
  • Human Face

• If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

  

  Michelangelo
  • God
  • Desire
  • I Believe

• You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Key
  • My Love

• I never told my love vocally still.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • My Love
  • Vocally

• My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will changeit,I'mwellaware, aswinterchangesthetrees. My Love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneatha source of little visible delight but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Source
  • Delight
  • My Love

• As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Freedom
  • Hate
  • Humanity

• I know you told me you'd wait for me, but I don't want either of us to wait anymore. Especially when I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were special. I feel like I've been running my whole life, speeding from small town into a big city, jumping from one place to the next for years until they all blurred together. And right when I decided it was time to finally stop running and set down some roots, there you were. My new beginning." Her eyes filled with tears as she smiled up at him and slid her arms around his neck to pull him closer. "My love." Jack sank down onto the couch with Mary, her curves soft beneath his muscles. "I'll always be yours, Angel. Forever.

  

  Bella Andre
  • Wait
  • Running
  • Jumping

• And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Care
  • My Life
  • I Love

• Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Achieve
  • Drive
  • Member

• Yours, my love, is the right human face.

  

  Edwin Muir
  • My Love
  • Human Face