Famous quotes containing the word admit:
“Life direct...is what Flaubert and Joyce have convinced themselves the man may never get quite clear of but the artist has nothing to do with. What they can’t admit is that t is overrated: which artists, faking and fumbling it together out of spit and toothpicks, should know best of all.”
—Marvin Mudrick (1921–1986)
“To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)