Quotes
Quotes about Fact
His deeds inimitable, like the sea
That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts
Nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.
When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.
The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
The fool of fate,--thy manufacture, man.
Facts are stubborn things.
The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires,
And decorate the verse herself inspires:
This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,--
Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.
Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
Sweeter than any sung
My songs that found no tongue;
Nobler than any fact
My wish that failed of act.
Others shall sing the song,
Others shall right the wrong,--
Finish what I begin,
And all I fail of win.
The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
His eyes
All radiant with glad surprise,
Looked forward through the Centuries
And saw the seeds which sages cast
In the world's soil in cycles past
Spring up and blossom at the last;
Saw how the souls of men had grown,
And where the scythes of Truth had mown
Clear space for Liberty's white throne;
Saw how, by sorrow tried and proved,
The blackening stains had been removed
Forever from the land he loved;
Saw Treason crushed and Freedom crowned,
And clamorous Faction, gagged and bound,
Gasping its life out on the ground.
I don't complain of Betsy or any of her acts,
Exceptin' when we 've quarreled and told each other facts.
For twelve honest men have decided the cause,
Who are judges alike of the facts and the laws.
He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.
A man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor.
Facts are stubborn things.
Everyone who enjoys thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.--Herein lies the difference between them that create and them that enjoy.
Then it is a fact, Simmias, that true philosophers make dying their profession.
History is not tactual. The factual is different from the actual.
The virtue of a historical novel is in its vice - the flatfooted affirmation of possibility as fact.
You've heard of junk food. How about junk facts?
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.
