Famous quotes by Authors

"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Of the blessings set before you, make your choice and be content"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done", and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way""

C. S. Lewis, Author

"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"All objects, all phases of culture, are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the West's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth"

Camille Paglia, Author

"My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy"

Camille Paglia, Author

"And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic Party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up"

Camille Paglia, Author

"When anything goes, it's women who lose"

Camille Paglia, Author

"The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy"

Camille Paglia, Author

"If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist"

Camille Paglia, Author

"It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation"

Camille Paglia, Author

"A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy"

Camille Paglia, Author

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