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7190 quotesBooks are not men and yet they stay alive.
Books - Reading
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Beauty and grace command the world.
Grace
Park Benjamin
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Debate
Walter Benjamin
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
Advice
Walter Benjamin
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Things and Little Things
Walter Benjamin
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Procreation
Walter Benjamin
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Public Opinion
Walter Benjamin
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Story and Story-Telling
Walter Benjamin
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Beauty
Walter Benjamin
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Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
Freedom
Ernest Benn
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Politicians and Politics
Tony Benn
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Adversity
Arnold Bennet
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Books - Classics
Alan Bennett
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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
Mistakes
Arnold Bennett
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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Change
Arnold Bennett
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Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Writers and Writing
Arnold Bennett
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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Effort
Arnold Bennett
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The price of justice is eternal publicity.
Publicity
Arnold Bennett
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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
Mistakes
James Gordon Bennett
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The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
Culture
Jesse Bennett
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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
Marriage
Jill Bennett
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Mind
Thomas A. Bennett
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I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
Originality
Tony Bennett
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There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
Attitude
William John Bennett
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Trust
Warren Bennis
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun