All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself. Speech in San Francisco (July 1871)”
“I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less. Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Autumn 1872)”
“Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes. Woman's Rights to the Suffrage Speech (1873)”
“Here, in the first paragraph of the Declaration [of Independence], is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied? On the United States Declaration of Independence in her "Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?" speech before her trial for voting (1873)”
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. " Philip Massinger ", a biographical essay, in The Sacred Wood”
“Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith. Letter to Richard Aldington”
“The Contemporary English Novelist”
“A dangerous person to disagree with. On Samuel Johnson , in Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century”
“Journey of the Magi”
“There were times we regretted The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces, And the silken girls bringing sherbet. "Journey of the Magi”
“... were we led all that way for Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly, We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death, But had thought they were different; this Birth was Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death. We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, With an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death. "Journey of the Magi”
“My general point of view may be described as classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and Anglo”
“It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "Dante" (1929), in Selected Essays (1932), p. 238”
“I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is Jellyorum and its one Idea is to be Useful!! Letter to his godson, Thomas Erle Faber”
“La grandeza es estar contento con lo que tienes.”
“El agua es el principio de todas las cosas.”
“El pasado es cierto, el futuro es incierto.”
“Una multitud de palabras no es prueba de una mente prudente.”
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”
“The greatest thing is to be content with what you have.”
“Water is the principle, or the element, of things.”
“All things are full of gods.”
“The past is certain, the future is obscure.”
“Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.”
“Hope is the only good that is common to all men.”
“Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.”
“What is God? That which has neither beginning nor end.”
“A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.”
“I have not been able to think out any solution of the terrible problem offered by the presence of the Negro on this continent , but of one thing I am sure, and that is that inasmuch as he is here and can neither be killed nor driven away, the only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have . As quoted in Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880”
“McManus, a Tammany Hall politician in the New York State Assembly, about a plan to humiliate Roosevelt by tossing him in a blanket. Quoted in”