"People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess."

-- Edith Sitwell

#People Quotes #Dames Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”

Source : Travels in Alaska, ch.1,'The Puget Sound and British Columbia' (published1915).
“You are so annoying. I could literally slap the sh*t out of you and feel so much better.”
“We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.”

Source : "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.
“Maybe Ferrari's mirrors are excellent & have HD resolution”
“A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.”
“Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.”
“The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true.”
“My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.”

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