The World

Famous quotes containing the words the world and/or world:

    The painter ... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
    Annie Dillard (b. 1945)

    You may drive a dog off the King’s armchair, and it will climb into the preacher’s pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.
    —Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)

    What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.
    Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)