Gaudy Night - Famous Quotes

Famous Quotes

  • "How fleeting are all human passions compared to the massive continuity of ducks."
  • "She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses."
  • "It may, perhaps, be embarrassing for a solitary man to walk across a wide quadrangle under a fire of glances from a collection of collegiate females; but it is child's play compared, for example, with the long trek from the pavilion at Lord's to the far end of the pitch, with five wickets down and ninety needed to save the follow-on. Thousands of people then alive might have recognized that easy and unhurried stride and confident carriage of the head."
  • "However loudly we may assert our own unworthiness, few of us are really offended by hearing the assertion contradicted by a disinterested party."
  • "Placetne, Magistra? Placet."

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    “Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”
    —Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)

    “A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. What he quotes, he fills with his own voice and humour, and the whole cyclopedia of his table-talk is presently believed to be his own.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)