Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters o...f the uncircumcised triumph.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the s...ingle real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, th...ey ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call it...self fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance--that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I suppose the fact is that no friendship can stand the breakfast test.... Civilisation has done away with curl-papers, yet at that... hour the soul of the Hausfrau is as tightly screwed up in them as was ever her grandmother's hair, and though my body comes down mechanically, having been trained that way by punctual parents, my soul never thinks of beginning to wake up for other people till lunch-time, and never does so completely till it has been taken out of doors and aired in the sunshine. Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning? It is the hour of savage instincts and natural tendencies; it is the triumph of the Disagreeable and the Cross. I am convinced that the Muses and the Graces never thought of having breakfast anywhere but in bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We admire with awe The exulting thunder of your race;... You give the universe your law, You triumph over time and space! Your pride of life, your tireless powers, We laud them, but they are not ours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
and the Soul endure A silence that is neither for nor against her faith... That God's Will will be done, that, in spite of her prayers, God will cheat no one, not even the world of its triumph.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Drawing is a struggle between nature and the artist, in which the better the artist understands the intentions of nature, the more... easily he will triumph over it. For him it is not a question of copying, but of interpreting in a simpler and more luminous language.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts--who merely hunted and fished for foo...d, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves--was a civilizing triumph.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"To my thinking" boomed the Professor, begging the question as usual, "the greatest triumph of the human mind was the calculation ...of Neptune from the observed vagaries of the orbit of Uranus." "And yours," said the P.B.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »