Logo
I would always be that same maddening, monstrous mixture of pedant

I would always be that same maddening, monstrous mixture of pedantry, egoism, politeness, selfishness, kindliness, sneakiness, larkiness, sociability, loneliness, ambition, ordered calm and hidden intensity. I would cover my life with words. I would spray the whole bloody world with words. – Stephen Fry (b.1957), Moab is my Washpot #INFJ

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Writing
category

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. – Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

Category:
Writing

Caress your phrase tenderly: it will end by smiling at you. – Anatole France

Category:
Writing

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft. – Jessamyn West, Saturday Review, 1957 September 21st

Category:
Writing

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 1894

Category:
Writing

Random Quotes

Till last by Philips farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Category:
Rivers

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Category:
Fear

I wonder if “an” ever occurs before “haughty” except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like “goeth”? – Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture, 2011

Category:
Quotations

It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees. – Wilson Flagg

Category:
Trees