Top 29 George Augustus Sala Quotes
#1. Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage?
George Augustus Henry Sala
#2. It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
Maurice Sendak
#3. The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#4. It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#7. After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of moral indecision and equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next.
Sarah Palin
#8. God gives each his due at the time allotted.
Euripides
#9. Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#11. Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.
Laura Riding
#12. Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#13. England is surrounded by enemies-by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#14. When I moved to Cleveland, defense research was laying the foundations for the Internet. The Apollo program was just about to put a man on the moon - and it was Neil Armstrong, from right here in Ohio. The future felt limitless. But today, our government is broken.
Peter Thiel
#15. An Italian proverb says, In men every mortal sin is venial; in woman every venial sin is mortal. And a German axiom, that There are only two good women in the world: one of them is dead, and the other is not to be found.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#16. Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#17. You dumb-ass," I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me.
Gayle Forman
#18. God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#19. You see, it is our pain that connects us to all of the most beautiful parts of life. Love is such a marvelous pain.
Bryant McGill
#20. There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#21. Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#22. There is something soothing about working in the yard. Planting seeds and seeing them poke green out of the dirt. And it gets you out of the house with out going too far.
Michael Lee West
#23. I think you can write about what you know for about an hour and a half. Then you have to start bullshitting. So I say, lie to me and lie to me well. The only way to write well is to write accurately. Accuracy is not about the reader, it's about the subject and the character.
A.M. Homes
#24. In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer
#25. How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.
Pope Francis
#26. Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#27. The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#28. Obama Talks to Auto-Worker's Union [10w]
"We shall increase auto-industry employment
by using live crash-test dummies.
Beryl Dov
