Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

  • A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?

  • I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

  • He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

  • I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

  • Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

  • Love is more cruel than lust.

  • There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

  • Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

  • We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.

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