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Although the stupid, unthinking world may approve what you have done, in your heart you know that, but for your treachery, the boy... - MORE Although the stupid, unthinking world may approve what you have done, in your heart you know that, but for your treachery, the boy you loved would be alive today. If anyone is responsible for his death, you killed him, and for that murder you will live and die in the contempt and loathing of your own heart.
Karl Brown
guilt | betrayal
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Long shall we seek his likeness, long in vain,
And turn to all of him which may remain,... - MORE Long shall we seek his likeness, long in vain,
And turn to all of him which may remain,
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man,
And broke the die--in moulding Sheridan!
George Gordon Noel Byron
originality | writers and writing | greatness
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His misfortune was that he loved youth--he was weak to it, it kindled him. If there was one eager eye, one doubting, critical mind... - MORE His misfortune was that he loved youth--he was weak to it, it kindled him. If there was one eager eye, one doubting, critical mind, one lively curiosity in a whole lecture-room full of commonplace boys and girls, he was its servant. That ardour could command him. It hadn't worn out with years, this responsiveness, any more than the magnetic currents wear out; it had nothing to do with Time.
Willa Cather
teachers and teaching | youth
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plato told

him: he couldn't
believe it plato told

him: he couldn't
believe it
E.E. Cummings
philosophical
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it took
a nipponized bit of
the old sixth
avenue
el; in the top of his head: to tell

him - MORE it took
a nipponized bit of
the old sixth
avenue
el; in the top of his head: to tell

him
E.E. Cummings
subways
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I could marry him. Yes, he would marry me. Midgets are not strong, he could get sick.... It could be done, done. I could marry him. Yes, he would marry me. Midgets are not strong, he could get sick.... It could be done, done.
Willis Goldbeck
murder
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He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever. He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
William Hazlitt
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | eloquence
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Nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. Nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Samuel Johnson
biography
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Poor Henry, he's spending eternity wandering round and round a stately park and the fence is just too high for him to peep over an... - MORE Poor Henry, he's spending eternity wandering round and round a stately park and the fence is just too high for him to peep over and they're having tea just too far away for him to hear what the countess is saying.
W. Somerset Maugham
James, Henry | writers and writing
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Captain, down where I come from we dearly love our whiskey, but we don't drink with a man unless we respect him. Captain, down where I come from we dearly love our whiskey, but we don't drink with a man unless we respect him.
James Poe
respect | cowardice | drinking
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