“Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.” Quote by William Alfred Quayle
“Winter is not an end. It is in transit. It is headed to bankruptcy. The sheriff will sell its stock for what he can get and an ice man will be the only bidder at the sale.” MenEndsSellsWinterIceBankruptcySheriffs Author:William Alfred Quayle
“Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.” MadeFortuneIllCandleSplendorGreaseCovetousness Author:Frances Osborne
“Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during that laziness is commonly a cage for unclean thoughts.” MindFirstsEyeLyingSleepBedIllLazinessIdleCagesDesertion Author:Frances Osborne
“It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at set times. The like may be said of society, which, if good, is a better refiner of the spirits than ordinary books.” IfsMaySaidBookUsedSpiritAirSocietyOrdinaryDietsAphorismLungs Author:Frances Osborne
“When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or honesty; dejected eyes confessing, to most judgments, guilt or folly.” WantLooksEyeFacesSpeakQualityHonestySpeechJudgmentGuiltFollyBetrayGesturesBreedingConfessingDejected Author:Frances Osborne
“I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have fallen into as hyperbolical an extreme, yet who can put too great a scorn upon their folly, that, to bring home a rascal deer, or a few rotten conies, submit their lives to the will or passion of such as may take them under a penalty no less slight than there is discretion shown in exposing them.” MaySaidHomePassionNextWorstBearsExtremesFallenFollyHuntingSubmitPenaltiesScornRottenDiscretionDeerExposingPhilipRascals Author:Frances Osborne
“A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.” WellsBookUseUnderstandingStudyStudentsOrdinaryMouths Author:Frances Osborne
“The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.” WayBrainStyleDryPensSauceErrands Author:Frances Osborne
“Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.” LittlesEnoughFatherLeftEasyLibertySecurityOrdinaryRemainsBetrayedArbitraryEver AfterDungeonsExpired Author:Frances Osborne