Famous quotes containing the word true:
“Mrs. de Winter: Whenever you touched me I knew you were comparing me with Rebecca. Whenever you looked at me or spoke to me, or walked with me in the garden, I knew you were thinking, This I did with Rebecca, and this, and this. Oh, its true isnt it?
Maxim de Winter: You thought I loved Rebecca? You thought that? I hated her.”
—Robert E. Sherwood (18961955)
“The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any mans unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.”
—Mary Antin (18811949)