Half Quotes - Page 37
Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
Alexander Pope (1849). “Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People”, p.217
Adam Smith (1784). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.24
Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
Victorian Age (Rede Lecture delivered at Cambridge, 1922) p. 49
Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.99, ACP Press
Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.136, Belford Bros.
William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.171
Walter Bagehot (1901). “Shakespeare the Man: An Essay”, New York : University Society