My Favourite Quotes

"A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life."

"Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known."

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. "

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. "

"Oscar Wilde"

"I know My God commands, whose power no power resists."

"Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown; Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent; The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown: Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss, Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss."

"Robert Greene"

"Not that I have the power to clutch my hand When his fair angels would salute by palm, But for my hand, as unattempted yet, Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich. Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary."

"William Shakespeare"