Hugh Walpole Quotes

#1. Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.

Hugh Walpole

#2. We are built to desire free will and to choose our own destiny. It's not about being right or wrong; it's about the celebration of life, your free will. The human spirit must constantly be fed. It is what makes us survive.

DeiAmor Verus

#3. In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Hugh Walpole

#4. All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, Lie down.

Hugh Walpole

#5. For good reasons, there are no ties during the Stanley Cup season. Somebody needs to win so the lads can get out to their cottages on the lakes, where all hockey players spend their summers, or so I have been told.

George Vecsey

#6. I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

Hugh Walpole

#7. It really is amazing all the things she has done for us (him and his three siblings). It's unrealistic, really, to see my mother do so much so right And that's one of the reasons I love her so much. She has always been there.

Mike Bibby

#8. Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

Samuel Johnson

#9. Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

Hugh Walpole

#10. Yes, I called him mine. He'd put his mouth on my vagina, and I was a feeling a little territorial about the whole thing. Sue me.

Elizabeth Brown

#11. Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

Hugh Walpole

#12. Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Hugh Walpole

#13. Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#14. Code breaker Mabel Elliott's favorite quote was: It isn't life that matters! It's the courage we bring to it.

Hugh Walpole

#15. No church is perfect, but don't let that discourage you. Someone has said that if you ever find one that is, it will stop being perfect the minute you join!

Billy Graham

#16. The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

Hugh Walpole

#17. For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

Simon McBurney

#18. You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.

J.M. Barrie

#19. Don't play for safety

Hugh Walpole

#20. A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

Hugh Walpole

#21. [A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

Hugh Walpole

#22. Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

May Sarton

#23. Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men, they are not so ignorantly and presumptuously self-absorbed. They are nobody and they know it. They shun notice. They are exceedingly rare.

Nick Tosches