William Bolitho Quotes

#1. In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

Robertson Davies

#2. Everyone had something to offer and nobody appeared to have much money. Even the successful seemed to have just enough to live like extravagant bums.

Patti Smith

#3. A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

William Bolitho

#4. As a motivation - for humans, but Christians especially - guilt is always wrong and can never move them to do anything He wants of them. Never let them realize that.

Geoffrey Wood

#5. Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

William Bolitho

#6. My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's also breakbeats, R&B, the big ballads. It's that whole era infused with very modern sounds.

Kiesza

#7. The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.

William Bolitho

#8. The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

William Bolitho

#9. Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Michelangelo

#11. When you write songs, you're writing little bits here, little bits there.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#12. Adventure must start with running away from home.

William Bolitho

#13. General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

William Bolitho

#14. Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.

William Bolitho

#15. My parents had irrational fears of Mexico and assumed that once you crossed the border, drug runners made you swallow a heroin balloon and then within the hour you were in a bathtub full of ice and they were harvesting your kidneys.

Justin Halpern

#16. It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.

William Bolitho

#17. We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.

William Bolitho

#18. I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

Rodney King

#19. Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

Sophia Loren

#20. You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

William Bolitho

#21. The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

William Bolitho

#22. An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.

William Bolitho

#23. Your optimism continues to defy reality

Aimee Carter

#24. [My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Kate Seredy