"But have you wine and music still,And statues and a bright-eyed love,And foolish thoughts of good and ill,And prayers to them who sit above?"

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Source : James Elroy Flecker (1947). “Selected Poems”

James Elroy Flecker

#Prayer Quotes #Wine Quotes #Foolish Quotes

“Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.”
“It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.”
“...this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me? I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy.”
“I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.”
“As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.”
“Can you keep up with the lingo”
“If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.”
“Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.”

Source : Nancy Springer (2008). “The Case of the Left-Handed Lady: An Enola Holmes Mystery”, p.92, Penguin

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