Samuel Prout famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

  • What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.

  • Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

  • There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

  • Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

  • Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

  • I just feel that if somebody happened to fancy somebody else, well, then, I should be a friend that he can say it to.

  • A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.

  • The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.

  • Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.

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