William Sansom Quotes

#1. A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

William Sansom

#2. Amber eyes slid to me. To my crown. Then Rhys's. "An emissary wears a golden crown. Is that a tradition in Prythian?"
"No," Rhysand said smoothly, "but she certainly looks good enough in one that can't resist.

Sarah J. Maas

#3. He already knew that life was largely illusion, that though wonderful things could happen, nevertheless as many disappointments came in compensation: and he knew, too, that life could offer a quality even worse - the probability that nothing would happen at all.

William Sansom

#4. We can do great things only by the divine grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Trees are green gold

William Sansom

#6. London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

William Sansom

#7. Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don't like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people's couches.

Peter Thiel

#8. Tall, black-haired, rouged, Kaiser-moustached, he cackled and screamed in weird attitudes, giggling in high soprano, hiding his little black teeth behind an exquisitely gloved hand - the 'poseur' absolute. He was said to have slept with Sarah Bernhard and vomited for a week afterwards.

William Sansom

#9. My problem is, if any place I'm sleeping catches on fire, I've got a problem because it takes me 20 minutes to get everything moving in the morning.

Brian Dennehy

#10. Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

Emily Dickinson

#11. If we could manage any sort of trust again ... Well. That would make me happier than you can imagine

Richelle Mead

#12. We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves.

Sharon Gannon

#13. A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all. To transmit that feeling, he writes.

William Sansom

#14. A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.

William Sansom