Famous quotes containing the words rose and/or asks:
“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“It is in this impossibility of attaining to a synthesis of the inner life and the outward that the inferiority of the biographer to the novelist lies. The biographer quite clearly sees Peel, say, seated on his bench while his opponents overwhelm him with perhaps undeserved censure. He sees him motionless, miserable, his head bent on his breast. He asks himself: “What is he thinking?” and he knows nothing.”
—Andre Maurois (1885–1967)