Quotes by occupation

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire quote: “Progress, this great heresy of decay…”

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Poet quotes

William Blake quote: “Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid…”

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Poet quotes

William Collins quote: “Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential…”

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Poet quotes

William Blake quote: “Prisons are built with stones of Law…”

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Actor quotes

Dick Van Dyke quote: “Probably one of the happiest moments, outside…”

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou quote: “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the…”

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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri quote: “Pride, envy, avarice — these are the…”

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Poet quotes

Samuel Butler quote: “Priests are not men of the world;…”

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Jacob Bronowski

Jacob Bronowski quote: “Power is the by-product of understanding…”

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Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht quote: “Poverty makes you wise, but it’s a…”

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Novelist quotes

William Faulkner quote: “Pointless… like giving caviar to an elephant…”

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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold quote: “Poetry; a criticism of life under the…”

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Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht quote: “Poverty makes you sad as well as…”

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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold quote: “Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive…”

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges quote: “Poetry remembers that it was an oral…”

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Poet quotes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: “Poetry: the best words in the best…”

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Poet quotes

William Blake quote: “Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations…”

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Poet quotes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: “Poetry has been to me its own…”

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert quote: “Poetry is as precise a thing as…”

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire quote: “Poetry and progress are like two ambitious…”

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Barry Cornwall

Barry Cornwall quote: “Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than…”

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Poet quotes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: “Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen…”

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George Gissing

George Gissing quote: “Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of…”

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Actor quotes

Sarah Bernhardt quote: “Permanent success cannot be achieved except by…”

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Karl Popper

Karl Popper quote: “Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in…”

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Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber quote: “Perhaps too much of everything is as…”

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Friendship quotes

Maya Angelou quote: “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by…”

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Philosopher quotes

Thomas Carlyle quote: “Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of…”

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C. S. Forester

C. S. Forester quote: “Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the…”

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Love quotes

William Faulkner quote: “Perhaps they were right in putting love…”

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