Top 20 Bolitho Quotes
#2. Sometimes I imagine life itself as merely a long preparation and waiting, a long darkness of growth toward these adventures of the spirit, a picaresque novel, so to speak, in which the episodes are all inward.
May Sarton
#3. A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color
William Bolitho
#4. Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
#5. Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.
William Bolitho
#6. The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.
William Bolitho
#7. If you bring out the worst in a man, that doesn't mean you're to blame for his sin.
Meredith Duran
#8. The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.
William Bolitho
#9. Lou had been a blur of red in Jo's memories of this
room, the bright spot of color in the endless waiting white.
Genevieve Valentine
#10. My motivation, even in anticipated shame, lay always in others. You can take the woman out of the upstairs, but you can't take the upstairs out of her.
Claire Messud
#11. General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
William Bolitho
#12. How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! And how much the best!
Charles James Fox
#13. Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.
Joseph Hall
#14. The short-term rage to be sated at the end of a barrel was too easy to act on. Staving off extinction required something else, something with more vision, something impossibly patient.
Hugh Howey
#15. Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.
William Bolitho
#16. It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.
William Bolitho
#17. We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.
William Bolitho
#18. You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
William Bolitho
#19. The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
William Bolitho
#20. An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.
William Bolitho
