Top 25 Examination Quotes of 110 - Page 5

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

John Updike

Self, Fiction, Examination

John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.92, Random House

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

James M. Barrie

Kings, Paper, Examination

James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.33, Jazzybee Verlag

Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all. In which case you have failed by default. Failure gave me an inner security that I had never obtained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things that I could not have learned any other way. I discovered I had a strong will and more discipline than I had suspected.

J. K. Rowling

Strong, Discipline, Examination

The story revolved around this universal identifiable fear that we must all have, at some point, when you commit yourself to being with another person, to have and to hold until death do us part. It's a huge thing. I just felt like it was a brilliant examination of what would happen, if the person that you trusted implicitly and thought you knew every follicle and pour of, inside and out, started to not be that person anymore, inside. Physically, they're still there, but they're not there mentally.

Harry Treadaway

Stories, Examination, Brilliant

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Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want.

Harper Lee

Baby, Questions And Answers, Examination

In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

Gregory Maguire

Examination, Individual, Life Altering

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

George Eliot

Fear, Intellectual, Examination

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6448, Delphi Classics

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

Franz Grillparzer

Anger, Together, Examination

Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.

Finley Peter Dunne

History, Examination, Posts

Finley Peter Dunne (1976). “Mr. Dooley and the Chicago Irish: The Autobiography of a Nineteenth-century Ethnic Group”, Catholic University of Amer Press