A sort of living oblivion. [ Horace Greeley ]
Great solitude is a sort of madness. [ Proverb ]
Concealed goodness is a sort of vice. [ Proverb ]
Diffidence is a sort of false modesty. [ Thackeray ]
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. [ Burke ]
Among unequals what society
Can sort, what harmony or true delight? [ Milton ]
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide. [ Chesterfield ]
No sort of head-cloths will fit a mad head. [ Proverb ]
As well the noble savage of the field
Might tamely couple with the fearful ewe;
Tigers might engender with the timid deer;
Wild, muddy boars defile the cleanly ermine,
Or vultures sort with doves; as I with thee. [ Lee ]
It is a sort of a favour to be denied at first. [ Proverb ]
The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort.
Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give truth a lustre and make wisdom smile. [ Cowper ]
There is a sort of pleasure in indulging of grief. [ Proverb ]
Every pleasure pre-supposes some sort of activity. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
A bad man is the sort of man who admires innocence. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Tale-bearers are commonly a sort of half-witted men. [ Proverb ]
Inconsiderable excuses are a sort of self-accusation. [ Proverb ]
Hypocrites are a sort of creatures that God never made. [ Proverb ]
Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue. [ Proverb ]
Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
That sort of tympani which requires nine months for cure. [ Proverb ]
Better be disagreeable in a sort than altogether insipid. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A bad woman is the sort of woman a man never gets tired of. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult. [ Ségur ]
A too quick return of an obligation is a sort of ingratitude. [ Proverb ]
Beggars, actors in farces, buffoons, and all that sort of people. [ Horace ]
The best sort of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury. [ Marcus Antoninus ]
Flattery is a sort of bad money, to which our vanity gives currency. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. [ Carlyle ]
Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself. [ Montaigne ]
A husband is a sort of promissory note - a woman is tired of meeting him. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
She turned to him and smiled, but in that sort which makes not others smile. [ Byron ]
Education is only like good culture, - it changes the size, but not the sort. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
It is having in some measure a sort at wit, to know how to use the wit of others. [ Stanislaus ]
Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the older, a part of experience. [ Bacon ]
Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul, like cages to birds or pounds to beasts. [ Charron ]
To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Books are a sort of dumb teachers; they cannot answer sudden questions, or explain present doubts. [ J. Watts ]
Every effect doth, after a sort, contain, or at least resemble, the cause from which it proceedeth. [ Hooker ]
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence. [ Shenstone ]
Copiousness of words is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings. [ Montagu ]
A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul. [ Dr. Watts ]
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. [ Cham fort ]
Great effects come of industry and perseverance; for audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds. [ Bacon ]
Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Not to resolve is to resolve; and many times it breeds as many necessities, and engageth as far in some other sort, as to resolve. [ Bacon ]
I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them. [ Montaigne ]
There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers. [ Montaigne ]
I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours. [ Swift ]
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. [ George Eliot ]
I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever. [ Burke ]
Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is, of a state of progress and change. [ John Ruskin ]
There are a sort of friends, who in your poverty do nothing but torment and taunt you with accounts of what you might have been had you followed their advice. [ Zimmerman ]
Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected. [ Bishop Whately ]
Humour is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. [ Carlyle ]
All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses. [ Ruffini ]
If ideas and words were distinctly weighed and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with. [ J. Locke ]
As the evening sun faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots. [ Hawthorne ]
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under jour cudgel; but; should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. [ Jane Porter ]
Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone. [ Gotthold ]
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. [ Emerson ]
"No" is a surly, honest fellow--speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips. [ Scott ]
Many men want wealth, - not a competence alone, but a five-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath. [ Beecher ]
Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; it is therefore good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of the better sort. [ Bacon ]
No good book or good thing of any sort shows its best face at first; nay, the commonest quality in a true work of art, if its excellence have any depth and compass, is that at first sight it occasions a certain disappointment. [ Carlyle ]
Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself: but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day. [ Goethe ]
The vengeful thought that has root merely in the mind is but a dream of idlest sort which one clear day will dissipate; while revenge, the passion, is a disease of the heart which climbs up, up to the brain, and feeds itself on both alike. [ Lew Wallace ]
Music once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies; it wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air. [ Bulwer ]
The tragedy of Hamlet
is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of Hamlet
is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater. [ G. A. Sala ]
There is a sort of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in exaggeration; their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame. [ Hume ]
What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity: not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity, wherein dwelleth the Divine. [ Carlyle ]
Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves. [ Rochefoucauld ]
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not contempt; its essence is love: it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. [ Carlyle ]
Knowledge of books is like that sort of lantern which hides him who carries it, and serves only to pass through secret and gloomy paths of his own; but in the possession of a man of business, it is as a torch in the hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered, the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare. [ Steele ]
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art: but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning. [ Montaigne ]
Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful. [ Montaigne ]