William Collins Quotes

#1. In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.

William Collins

#2. Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

William Collins

#3. When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.

William Collins

#4. Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.

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#5. I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

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#6. Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

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#7. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!

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#8. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

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#9. Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.

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#10. Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

William Collins