As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks. Clive James

Quotes November 23, 2008

As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
Critics and Criticism
Quotations by Clive James

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. Aeschylus

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.PromisesQuotations by Aeschylus

In medicine sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission are venial.MedicineQuotations by Theodore Tronchin

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.FranknessQuotations by Friedrich Nietzsche

He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.MothersQuotations by English Proverb

The last act crowns the play.PlaysQuotations by John Ruskin

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.Fanatics and FanaticismQuotations by Edward Gibbon

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.ChoiceQuotations by …

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.PrayerQuotations by Oscar Wilde

Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory.VictoryQuotations by Virgil

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.SolitudeQuotations by …