"I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree."

-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Hate Quotes #Ivy Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.”
“Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.”

Source : "Poésies completes de Sainte-Beuve" by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Paris: Charpentier, p. 16 ("Vie de Joseph Delorme"), 1840.
“If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.”
“The games industry is the only industry with the tools and the talent to create real-time immersive 3D environments.”
“If there is gossip to be garnered, garner it. If there are new dress styles to be imitated, imitate them. If there are hearts to be broken, break them. That's my girls.”
“One could go on for ever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, hard-edge or soft, but after a while such questions become a bore. They are merely problems in aesthetics, having only to do with the outer man.”

Source : Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1993). “Lee Krasner”, Abbeville Press
“I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.”
“A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.”

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