I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.
For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.
I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach!" declared the Vicomte. "You have no soul," said Philippe sadly. "But I have a stomach, and it cries aloud for sustenance. " "I weep for you," said Philip. "Why do I waste my poetic gems upon you?
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
The essence of American racism is disrespect.
My name is Echo. I dream of cats with stars in their fur.