John Harington Quotes

#1. If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

Margaret Fuller

#2. Part of my approach to my illness has been to say I want to choose life, I want to keep going, I want to live fully until I die.

Thea Bowman

#3. And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as though she were constantly getting ready to ask a question. Even an immaculately crafted doll could not have been as lovely.

Natsuo Kirino

#4. Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing;
Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.

John Harington

#5. It just feels good to beat the world champs to be the world champs.

Joe Torre

#6. From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]

John Harington

#7. Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.

Amy Bloom

#8. Best fishing in troubled waters.

John Harington

#9. When all think alike, no one thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann

#10. Amalia had the unpredictability of a splinter, I couldn't impose on her the prison of a single adjective.

Elena Ferrante

#11. Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.

John Harington

#12. For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

#13. From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

John Harington

#14. A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,
True but for lying,
honest but for stealing,
Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

John Harington

#15. When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

John Harington

#16. I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

Shane Carruth

#17. Soon she would know

Paul Pilkington