Edmund Waller Quotes

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Edmund Waller

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• You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • You
  • Look
  • Will

• My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Children
  • Dad
  • Loved

• A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Nothing
  • Prove
  • Accomplished

• What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Future
  • Party
  • Politics

• In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • End
  • Born

• I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hope

• I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Nature
  • Career
  • Adversity

• There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Important
  • Children
  • Why

• I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Family
  • City
  • London

• I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Done
  • Now
  • Products

• The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Human
  • Data
  • Volumes

• Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Hate
  • Brother
  • Speech

• You change the world by being yourself.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Change
  • Yourself

• We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Building
  • Bank
  • Retail

• When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Great
  • Music
  • God

• I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Men
  • Laugh
  • Hardest

• I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Character
  • Perfect
  • Just

• I'm a cereal girl. I have always loved my cereal ever since I was a kid.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Loved

• God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.

  

  Edward Reynolds
  • Sin
  • Protect
  • Sanctuary

• If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.

  

  William Penn
  • Art
  • Death
  • Honest

• Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Money
  • Chance
  • Hard

• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Lose
  • Praise
  • Half