No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of ...Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Master of Trinity: Is he an Italian? Harold Abrahams: Of Italian extraction, yes.... Master of Trinity: I see. Harold Abrahams: But not all Italian. Master of Trinity: I'm relieved to hear it. Harold Abrahams: He's half-Arab.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all li...fe and all arts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belon...gs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking for... perfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And this mighty master of the organ of language, who knew its every stop and pipe, who could awaken at will the thin silver tones ...of its slenderest reeds or the solemn cadence of its deepest thunder, who could make it sing like a flute or roar like a cataract, he was born into a country without literature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of whi...le you breathe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a certain jargon, which, in French, I should call un Persiflage d'Affaires, that a foreign Minister ought to be perfectly... master of, and may be used very advantageously at great entertainments, in mixed companies, and in all occasions where he must speak, and should say nothing. Well turned and well spoken, it seems to mean something, though in truth it means nothing. It is a kind of political badinage, which prevents or removes a thousand difficulties, to which a foreign Minister is exposed in mixed conversations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »