Difficult

Famous quotes containing the word difficult:

    How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.
    Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle “promise” from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)