Unsage Quotes

#1. One is taught to refrain from irony, because mankind does tend to take it literally. In the hearing of the gods, who hear all, it is conversely unsage to make a simple and direct statement. So what is one to do? The dilema needs a whole volume to itself.

Max Beerbohm

#2. The artist who goes into himself most deeply -- and it is a painful journey -- is the artist who touches us most closely, speaks to us most clearly.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

George Bancroft

#4. Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

Janette Turner Hospital

#5. The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

Adam Driver

#6. They came to believe their doctors were holding back limited quantities of a cure, and attempted to take them hostage. They formed armies, congresses, religions; plotted rebellions, fomented treasons, practiced heresies.

Joe Hill

#7. Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.

Anthony Trollope

#8. I remember that he split two maple-wing seeds and struck one on his nose and one on mine, telling me that this way everyone would know we were in love.

Lauren Oliver

#9. If you are foolish, foolish is going to stay out.

Ana Monnar

#10. We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.

Raymond Williams