Artless Quotes

#1. To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,
these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.

Joanna Baillie

#2. Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives.

Annie Proulx

#3. Artless yourself, you suspect not others of deceit; and viewing the world through the medium of your own truth and innocence, you fancy all who surround you to deserve your confidence and esteem. What

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#4. The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

Norman Mailer

#5. When the artless doctor sees
No one hope, but of his fees,
And his skill runs on the lees;
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
When his potion and his pill,
Has, or none, or little skill,
Meet for nothing, but to kill;
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

Robert Herrick

#6. Of its persistent, artless strain: Naught so can soothe a soul's own pain, As making glad another soul!

Paul Verlaine

#7. Everything ungirt, artless, ardent, urgent about Louie was to the fore: all over herself she gave the impression of twisted stockings.

Elizabeth Bowen

#8. When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. that I thought of you - of the air that slipped
between the strands of your hair, and blue stones
in my hand, before the autumn damasks

bloom their last, before these blue stones are lain
forgotten as the blossoms of plum trees
I could not render in my artless hands

John Daniel Thieme

#10. The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.

Joseph Mitchell

#11. Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is.
Come let us fart in the home.
There is no art in a fart.
Still a fart may not be artless.
Let us fart and artless fart in the home.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. She was keeping her head for a reason, for a cause; and the labour of this detachment, with the labour of her forcing the pitch of it down, held them together in the steel hoop of an intimacy compared with which artless passion would have been but a beating of the air. Her

Henry James

#13. Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.

William Jones

#14. So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

William Shakespeare

#15. The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

D.T. Suzuki

#18. In its artless cruelty, Dallas is superior to any "intelligent" critique that can be made of it. That is why intellectual snobberymeets its match here.

Jean Baudrillard

#19. Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you know it you're in a final act of a lousy movie. A lousy horror-movine, usually ...

Glen Duncan

#20. A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery.

Ricky Gervais

#21. True perfection seems imperfect,
yet it is perfectly itself.
True fullness seems empty,
yet it is fully present.
True straightness seems crooked.
True wisdom seems foolish.
True art seems artless.

Lao-Tzu

#22. Insincerity was taxing once you'd breathed the refreshing air of artless candor.

Penny Reid

#23. Wintervale, by being so open, trusting, and artless his entire life, had made his more cynical friends hang on to their secrets. And in doing so, they had preserved themselves from the Bane.

Sherry Thomas

#24. Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.

Norm MacDonald

#25. Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic - the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless, and the magic of loving your readers.

Kahil Gibran

#26. And there was something so artless in this smile that I had to smile back.

James Baldwin

#27. A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

Marcus Garvey

#28. We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to choose.

Sandra Fluke

#29. Sometimes you are more comfortable with a person who gets close without coming close.

Shampa Sharma

#30. A mind is not profound by itself, just like a tree without a root.

Pearl Zhu

#31. Poverty's a chilly theme," he said; "let's take something to warm us before we go on with the variations.

John Meade Falkner

#32. The outfit, tight in places,
and loose in some, says as much
in the buttons as it does in cuffs.

Kristen Henderson