Nature never writes a blind hand. [ T. Starr King ]
Sin writes histories; goodness Is silent. [ Goethe ]
The world agrees
That he writes well who writes with ease. [ Prior ]
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. [ Pope ]
He alone can claim this name, who writes
With fancy high, and bold and daring flights. [ Horace ]
Unchangeable save in thy wild waves' play,
Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow;
Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. [ Byron ]
Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow;
Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. [ Byron ]
One writes well only of what he has seen or suffered. [ De Goncourt ]
It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men. [ Sheridan ]
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. [ Montesquieu ]
Genius makes its observations in shorthand; talent writes them out at length. [ Bovee ]
The fool of vanity; for her alone he lives, loves, writes, and dies but to be known. [ Canning ]
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it. [ R. L. Stevenson ]
When one writes of woman, he must reserve the right to laugh at his ideas of the day before. [ A. Ricard ]
Philosophy writes treatises on old age and friendship; Nature makes those on youth and love. [ D'Alembert ]
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers, and clouds and stars. [ Luther ]
A woman who writes, commits two sins: she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. [ Alphonse Karr ]
To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous: or even if he did, you would find fault with him as a pedant. [ Hazlitt ]
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well. [ Montesquieu ]
No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning. [ Addison ]
Imagination is always the ruling and divine power, and the rest of the man is only the instrument which it sounds, or the tablet on which it writes. [ John Ruskin ]
Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity. [ Bishop Heber ]
A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind. [ Bruyere ]
Every common dauber writes rascal and villain under his pictures, because the pictures themselves have neither character nor resemblance. But the works of a master require no index. His features and coloring are taken from nature. The impression they make is immediate and uniform; nor is it possible to mistake his characters. [ Junius ]
A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chairs of the ladies and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbors sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing. [ Martial ]