Quotes About Thomas Gainsborough

#1. Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.

Drake

#2. You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might have been a quibbling attorney, or a hypocritical parson.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#3. I wouldn't underestimate Emma," said Julian in a voice like razor wire. "Or you'll find your head lying on the ground next to your still-twitching body."

"How graphic," said Iarlath, amused.

Cassandra Clare

#4. I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

Thomas Gainsborough

#5. We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away

Thomas Gainsborough

#6. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

Patrick Rothfuss

#7. Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

Thomas Gainsborough

#8. I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.

Ayumi Hamasaki

#9. Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.

Thomas Gainsborough

#10. Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

Thomas Gainsborough

#11. When the venerable pontiff's hour has come, a Roman of good age shall be elected, of whom it will be said that he dishonored his throne though he held it long, with virtuous acts.

Nostradamus