General Sayings
206 sayings found from the Modern era from 206 authors
Category
Holiday
I am a man of letters, a man of words.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
The object of power is power.
Most human beings are dead, in fact, though they may not know it.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
I have seen the future and it is wireless.
That's the whole burden of this novel—the loss of certainties.
He who awaits much can expect little.
Vitamin C is the most important of all vitamins.
Don't talk to me about justice. I'm a man of letters, not a judge.
I dislike everything that is not in good taste, and good taste is simply the art of being able to live with bad taste.
Nationalism is a great menace. It is the greatest evil that the world is faced with today.
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.
The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.
The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.
I hate the world and almost everything in it.
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars!
After a certain point, there is no return. This point has to be reached.
I am more than ever now the bride of science.