Top 42 Thomas Ellis Quotes
#1. Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#2. I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#4. Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#5. Everything looked the same every morning: all in order and just the same. It was in the nights that the difference held sway and there was no comfort for lost and lonely things.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#6. This perhaps is what is meant by hiraeth: a lifelong yearning for what is gona and out of reach.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#8. Data from any single gene cannot really tell you anything so definitive. If
Bill Bryson
#9. Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#10. There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#12. When a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#13. You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.
Matt Chandler
#14. Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#16. Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#17. The price of success: hard work, patience, and a few sacrifices.
Edward Bok
#18. To cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#19. Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.
Joseph J. Ellis
#20. There is no relationship. Women, like men, women, children, babies hamsters.
This is the Google Translate of the quote in Persian, above.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#21. One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#22. Things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#23. That's the bruise in the heart the ice in the heart was meant to ice.
Claudia Rankine
#24. Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.
Silvia Hartmann
#25. Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.
George Farquhar
#26. Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#27. Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#28. There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#29. History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.
Edmund Morgan
#30. They shared an image of the American Christmas
riches, reconciliations, tears, snow, success, sentiment, furs and firs, the shop windows shining like Heaven and everything good for sale.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#31. Souls, Ms. Ellis, are for people who blame devils for their illness and praise angels for the cure. I do neither.
Thomas Trask
#32. Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.
Vanilla Ice
#33. But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.
Ted Dekker
#34. Eager to oppose Thomas Paine's prescription in Common Sense for a huge single-house legislature that purportedly embodied the will of "the people" in its purest form. For Adams, "the people" was a more complicated, multivoiced, hydra-headed thing that had to be enclosed within different chambers.
Joseph J. Ellis
#35. There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#36. Scientists believe that the universe is made of hydrogen because they claim it's the most plentiful ingredient. I claim that the most plentiful ingredient is stupidity.
Frank Zappa
#37. I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#38. Every dance you know is an anti-grammar of another dance you do not know.
Thomas Sayers Ellis
#39. Death is the sweetest apple that you can only bite once
Peter Luther
#40. Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#41. God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars.
Joseph J. Ellis
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