William Godwin Quotes

Enthusiasm is always an interesting spectacle. When it expresses itself with an honest and artless eloquence, it is difficult to listen to it and not, in some degree, to catch the flame.

William Godwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 3, 1756 - April 7, 1836

Topics

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U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

John Bruton

MoreHalfGlobalMarketThanRely

There was never a time when I wasn't making guitars out of cardboard or dressing up like the Misfits.

Andy Biersack

TimeNeverDressingOutUpLike

Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about facts but about the interpretation of facts, not about one particular feeling but about a confluence of conflicting feelings. Everything is elusive in Proust because nothing is ever certain.

Andre Aciman

LifeFactsFeelingFeelingsNothing

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Robert Louis Stevenson

LifeGoodCardsHandMatterPoor

I have always said that I believe in the people's right to vote on an issue.

Robert J. Bentley

PeopleBelieveSaidVoteI Believe

I have so many moments. I am extremely passionate about life and at the same time, I'm always depressed, so everything's always happening at the same time for me. It's the best day and the worst day too.

Amy Ray

LifeTimeBestDayI AmMe

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

Stephen Hawking

DayEarthOne DayPlanetVenusSoon

I've always been a gurner. I tried to reel it in. You know there was a period when I thought I was going to be a really serious actress, but the gurning... I can't get in control of it. It just runs away with me.

Michelle Gomez

MeControlThoughtYouSeriousKnow

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

Mo Yan

LonelinessCreationHungerWere

The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones.

Judith Miller

MoneyWorthPrettyMostContinental

The thing about New York is it's like London: you want to go to the boutique places. You can go to the big department stores - Barney's, Bloomingdales and all that stuff - but I like the little stores.

Bryan Greenberg

New YorkYouGoNewWantLondon

I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.

Arielle Dombasle

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