Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

Mary Augusta Ward

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 11, 1851 - March 24, 1920

Topics

LifeExerciseWriteObviousBooks

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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The days I see a Make-A-Wish kid are the best days of the week. It's a real privilege. I give them exactly what they give me - hope.

John Cena

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Ralph Lauren is wonderful.

Maye Musk

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My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.

Michael Caine

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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

Ambrose Bierce

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We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.

Stephan Pastis

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died.

Sue Miller

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Running away from something doesn't do anything except put distance.

Rob Halford

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I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when 'Peep Show' or the sketch show is on the telly or when we're doing loads of interviews.

Robert Webb

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Power's not what the Constitution was about.

Roy Moore

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I just don't give off a great first impression.

Mike Birbiglia

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