Margery Sharp Quotes

#1. It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.

Margery Sharp

#2. [To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!

Anne, Princess Royal

#3. Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Walter Scott

#4. There is nothing so intractable as a calendar.

Margery Sharp

#5. vociferating optimism.

Albert Camus

#6. Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse

John Milton

#7. Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.

Niklaus Wirth

#8. But truth, that dangerous commodity, has a way of sticking ...

Margery Sharp

#9. Youth is always a little offended to find itself not preferred: it cannot help feeling that when it admits the old to its society, it confers a benefit.

Margery Sharp

#10. Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.

Thomas Chalmers

#11. idea of whacking the hippo.

Stuart Gibbs

#12. A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.

John Eccles

#13. There is nothing more tedious than a constant round of gaiety.

Margery Sharp

#14. No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

Edward Dahlberg

#15. Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.

Kenneth More

#16. Meself I like a breath of air before I go to bed, same as I like a bite o' cheese or something before I take me teeth out.

Margery Sharp