Thou Art Manifest

Famous quotes containing the words thou, art and/or manifest:

“‘Remember, man, that thou art dust!’
But yet, alas, but seldom I
Do think indeed that I must die . . .”
—Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)

“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth ... into a liar—that I call an achievement.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)