Top 29 Francis Jeffrey Quotes
#1. Edgar had a heart attack, and I'm to blame. We were making love, and I took the bag off my head.
Joan Rivers
#3. Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
Francis Jeffrey
#4. Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
#5. I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
Stephen Sondheim
#6. When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?
Cormac McCarthy
#7. Strangers, he remembered, can tell you how old you are without trying. The looks you get or don't get let you know exactly where you're at, where you're headed and where you can never go again.
Jim Lynch
#8. I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#9. It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.
Jeffrey Bernard
#10. Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.
Harold Feinstein
#11. Can you identify the voices inside of your own head? It's imperative that you do so you can understand who is doing your thinking.
Toni Sorenson
#12. God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
#14. He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
#15. The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms
Kamila Shamsie
#16. The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
#18. Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends.
Alexander Pope
#19. Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
#20. Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
#21. Despite her love of pineapple on pizza, Lark was perfection. I felt like a love starved moth drawn to the light of her smile.
Bijou Hunter
#22. What about death is to be feared? The burdens of life can be so great that it would be a comfort to know that someday it will end...that someday, we will have earned final rest.
Annette Marie
#23. The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
#25. Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#26. The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
Francis Jeffrey
#27. Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.
Francis Jeffrey
#28. There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.
Francis Jeffrey
#29. He was a caricature of a caricature of a loser.
Ann Brashares
