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Quotes About Edmund

I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme From that time unto this season I received nor rhyme nor reason.
~ Edmund Spenser
Hell is God's Absence.
~ Edmund White
Few things discover the state of the arts amongst people more certainly than the presents that are made to them by foreigners.
~ Edmund Burke
There goes the most remarkable man I ever met. Unless I am badly mistaken, the world is due to hear from him one of these days.
~ Edmund Morris
Washburn noticed how courteous the Colonel was to servants, and how he talked with equal animation about his gardener and the King of Italy.
~ Edmund Morris
I think," Philander Knox teased, "it would be better to keep your action free from any taint of legality.
~ Edmund Morris
the great fundamental questions looming before us,"21 namely, the unnatural alliance of politics and corporations. It
~ Edmund Morris
UMW executives were openly inciting mobs to riot.
~ Edmund Morris
demonstrators against bloodsports are "logical vegetarians of the flabbiest Hindoo type." President
~ Edmund Morris
About as thorough-paced a scoundrel as I ever saw," Roosevelt declared. "An oily-Gammon, churchgoing specimen."45
~ Edmund Morris
no Art, nor any Leach's Might . . . Can remedy such hurts; such hurts are hellish Pain.
~ Edmund Spenser
Gratitude is my chief erotic emotion.
~ Edmund White
Stendhal had said a Frenchman was an Italian in a bad mood.
~ Edmund White
I think he had no notion how little an effect the word sin had on me. He might as well have said, Homosexuality is bad juju
~ Edmund White
There was no way to defend what I was. All I could fight for was my right to choose my exile, my destruction.
~ Edmund White
Nor did Kevin go, "Ew-w," when he pulled his penis out and it was brown and smelly, and that, too, Guy considered a rite de passage .
~ Edmund White
He was amused by their 'ass stories' ( histoires de cul ) told over morning coffee at noon about their exploits the night before.
~ Edmund White
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
~ Edmund Waller
Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
~ Edmund White
One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.
~ Douglas Brinkley
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
~ Edmund White
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
~ Edmund Burke
When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth; invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
~ Edmund Burke
the sole problem was the terrible unawareness.
~ Edmund S. Phelps