Francis Cowley Burnand famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

  • If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

  • A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

  • Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

  • Could man be drunk for ever       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       Their hands upon their hearts.

  • With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

  • Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

  • I love love stories, no matter how dark.

  • It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

  • No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.