Top 11 The Moon And Sixpence Quotes
#1. Some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.
W. Somerset Maugham
#2. It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.
Susanna Kaysen
#3. I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#5. Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.
Ed Sheeran
#6. [On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.
Elizabeth I
#7. Oh, with you, I could conquer the world - oh, with you I could catch hold of the moon like a little silver sixpence.
Katherine Mansfield
#8. You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.
Emma Donoghue
#9. I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.
John Wilkes Booth
#10. To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the
personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am
willing to excuse a thousand faults.
W. Somerset Maugham
#11. To make peace is not a passive endeavor, but rather an activist mindset that works toward the end of conflict. In our world, it is not the soldier but the activist who calls for peace.
Dillon Burroughs
