Famous quotes containing the word true:
“... word-sniffing ... is an addiction, like glueor snowsniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically.... As an addict ... I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness, and in a pinch I can recommend nearly any reasonable solace, whether or not it qualifies as a true descendant of Noah Webster.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (19081992)
“So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl
With the cliffs of England crumbling away behind them,
And he said to her, Try to be true to me,
And Ill do the same for you, for things are bad
All over, etc., etc.”
—Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)
“Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions.... The learned are mere literary drudges.”
—William Hazlitt (17781830)