Famous quotes containing the words laugh, bought, laughter, literature and/or greeks:
“I am tired of tears and laughter,
And men that laugh and weep;”
—A.C. (Algernon Charles)
“Flaemmchen: Did you ever see a stenographer with a decent frock on?
The Baron: I have indeed.
Flaemmchen: One she’d bought herself?
The Baron: Oh, I see what you mean.”
—William A. Drake (1900–1965)
“Is whispering nothing?
Is leaning cheek to cheek? Is meeting noses?
Kissing with inside lip? Stopping the career
Of laughter with a sigh?—a note infallible
Of breaking honesty.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life’s true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
““The Greeks used to say,” he said bitterly, using a phrase that had been a long time on his mind, “that when a man became a slave, on the first day he lost one-half of his virtue.””
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)