Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

There are depths in the soul which are deeper than hell. Platen.

There are enough unhappy on this earth. Tennyson.

There are faces so fluid with expression that we can hardly find what the mere features are. Emerson.

There are falsehoods which are not lies ... which is the case in parables, fables, &c.... In such instances no confidence is destroyed, because none was reposed; no promise to speak the truth is violated, because none was given. Paley.

There are few circumstances in which it is not 40 best either to hide all or to tell all. La Bruyère.

There are few faces that can afford to smile. A smile is sometimes bewitching; in general vapid; often a contortion. Disraeli.

There are few men so obstinate in their atheism whom a pressing danger will not reduce to an acknowledgment of the Divine power. Plato.

There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult. Ségur.

There are few things that are worthy of anger, and still fewer that can justify malignity. Johnson.

There are few thoughts likely to come across ordinary men which have not already been expressed by greater men in the best possible way; and it is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world. Ruskin.