Quotes About Anthony

It is the novelist's innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself.

In Buddhism, the eight emblems would refer to the eight marks of good fortune on the sole of Buddha's foot—wheel, conch shell, umbrella, canopy, lots flower, jar, pair of fishes, and mystic signs—which, in turn, were symbols of the organs in Buddha's body.

E'en fishes by nature seek authentic Truth,     For to hear scriptures they leap through the waves.

No doubt even more unforeseen denouements lie in somebody's archive, though few remain to care about them.

personal animosity resonated throughout essays written as if music, the most subjective of aesthetic forms, had been elevated to the objectivity of scientific principles.

It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.

What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight, he said, when he saw us. It makes me ashamed to be one.

In Vishnu-land what Avatar?

The wine had the effect of making him discourse on racing, a subject regarding which I was myself unfortunately too ignorant to dispose as summarily as I should have wished of the almost certainly erroneous opinions he put forward.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures." —MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

like you, I am busy making a living and taking care of my family. I didn't have the time to sit down and read 50 pages of disclosures.

The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so good.

Babbling may be a weakness, but to my thinking mystery is a vice.

There is an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain.

I quite feel that an apology is due for beginning a novel with two long dull chapters full of description.

CHAPTER LIII LADY USHANT AT BRAGTON

Nobody ever heard of anything so mean, either in novels or in real life.

CHAPTER LXXVII THE SENATOR'S LECTURE.—NO. I

That very distinguished but now aged physician, Sir Omicron Pie, was still staying at Matching Priory.

And then how grievous a thing it is to have the pleasure of your novel destroyed by the ill-considered triumph of a previous reader.

CHAPTER XL LORD RUFFORD WANTS TO SEE A HORSE

We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas, " where Christ will be taken out of its context.

Have you limitations, my lord? asked Sir Anthony. My lord looked at him seriously. I do not know, he said, with a revealing simplicity. I have never yet discovered them.

I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.