Famous quotes containing the words hamilton, lying and/or west:
“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”
—Edith Hamilton (1867–1963)
“I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
—Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)