Frederick Locker-Lampson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful.
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I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a large and increasing sale of his works.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.
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Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.
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I recollect a nurse called Ann, Who carried me about the grass, And one fine day a fine young man Came up and kissed the pretty lass. She did not make the least objection. Thinks I, "Aha, When I can talk I'll tell Mama," And that's my earliest recollection.
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It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.
-- Frederick Locker-Lampson
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I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding.
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Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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Be very careful about your care. Don't use it for sexual high jinks. It can get ugly - trust me. Also be careful when flushing.
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Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance
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No part of you is dark or ugly,' I said sharply, squeezing his hand. 'Not to me, not ever. Do you understand?
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You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
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