H. B. Warner Quotes
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.
One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.
Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.
You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.
The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.
We should be long past applauding politicians of any hue: they got us into this mess. The best deserve a probationary opportunity to prove themselves, the worst should be in jail.
Do not wonder why you are blessed with so much, just understand you have so much so you can help other people have as much as you.
A lot of the men were upset or jealous of me because I got the girl. Men are always trying too hard. When I effortlessly get the girl, it pisses them off.
If people can't take the heat and can't take the controversy then they shouldn't be involved in advertising of reality TV because there is so much heat and controversy in reality TV.
People really have to start being a smarter consumer, read labels, and understand what hidden sugars are.
My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.
Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this.
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.
When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.
The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.
We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly.
Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.
A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.
Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.
I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.
Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.
