Half Quotes - Page 61

Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.

The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.

The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay.

All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it

We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.

There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half of my life." I'm trying to avoid that.

I don't know why I've spent over half of My life talking about dying

A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.

I think I would be a good villain in a James Bond movie. They were fairly weak, the last half-dozen of villains in James Bond movies were not that convincing.

I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down several couple with a partner, with whom he affirmed he had danced at every Christmas for nearly half a century.

An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.

You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.

The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance.

A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.

If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.

We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

Half of bravery is perspective.

Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.