Longinus Quotes

#1. Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.

Joseph Addison

#2. I want you to kiss me, Longinus. Kiss me like this night will never end. If I am going to die, then this is my last request. Will you grant it?

Alan Kinross

#3. But Longinus and his intellectual descendants had been concerned with the Sublime as a literary effect: how language, not landscape, could be lofty, grand or inspiring.

Robert Macfarlane

#4. Longinus was suddenly aware of her biting his neck, and he experienced the agony and the ecstasy of her dark kiss.

Alan Kinross

#5. Lilith came to Longinus in the night, as she often did, and the darkness of the cave was filled with the lustful sounds of their passionate couplings. Afterwards, as he lay back with his eyes closed, she ran her cool fingers playfully across his chest and whispered honeyed words in his ear.

Alan Kinross

#6. So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.

George Saintsbury

#7. A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.

Jonathan Swift

#8. I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech.' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants.'

Ernest Cline

#9. Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.

Ann Wigmore

#10. Sublime natures are seldom clean!

Longinus

#11. Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#12. Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

Ann Coulter

#13. I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up.

Cornel Wilde

#14. For our soul is raised out of nature through the truly sublime, sways with high spirits, and is filled with proud joy, as if itself had created what it hears.

Longinus

#15. The true call of liberation of women is not in taking off their clothes, but taking off their prejudices.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. When i'm with you my blood flows smoothly through

Ellen Hopkins

#17. Alas! Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness? I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding, and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#18. I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do

Stephen Chbosky

#19. Was love worth not having the life you wanted?

Scott Turow

#20. That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

Pat Sajak

#21. When people have a sense of our military capability, nobody will ever dare to cast an evil eye on our nation.

Narendra Modi

#22. With each door one women walks through it is incumbent to bring another woman through it with her.

Gloria Feldt

#23. In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!

Laozi

#24. I felt like fate had just handed me two cups and I'd stupidly drunk from the wrong one.

Samantha Young