Authors:

Simple Quotes - Page 105

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.

Horatio Nelson (2012). “The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters”, p.69, tredition

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 443), 1895.

Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.179, Courier Corporation

The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.

Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.22, Autonomedia

To be simple is no small matter.

Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.7, Penguin

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.33, Penguin