Carrie Quotes - Page 11

• Excess always carries its own retribution.

  Ouida

  Excess, Retribution

  Ouida (1884). “Princess Napraxine”

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• I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fate, Water, Swim

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.279

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• Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fall, Men, Order

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• You are yoked with a lamb,
  That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
  Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank,
  And straight is cold again.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Fire, Lambs

  William Shakespeare (1865). “Tragedies”

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• The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

  Joseph Addison

  Half, World, Next

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• To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge,--carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.

  Joseph Addison

  Ambition, Men, Forever

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.356

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• God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

  David Lloyd George

  War, Heart, Wine

  "The Great War". David Lloyd George's Speech delivered at the Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.

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• My life carries its own meaning in itself.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Meaning Of Life, Life Means

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselves part of the same great temple; for it belongs not to this earth alone.

  Phillips Brooks

  Soul, World, Body

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• Trust me no tortures which the poets feign
  Can match the fierce unutterable pain
  He feels, who night and day devoid of rest
  Carries his own accuser in his breast.

  Juvenal

  Pain, Night, Fierce

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.470

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• Good is god, but better carries it.

  George Herbert

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• He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
  [He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]

  George Herbert

  Wells

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• Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fall, Genius, Now And Then

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Jo's Boys: Top Novelist Focus”, p.102, 谷月社

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• An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

  Albert Camus

  Feelings, May, Intense

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• from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Past, Alcohol, United States

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• A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Principles, Matter, Facts

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• Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Hurt, Pride, Vanity

  Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.150, Modern Library

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• Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.

  Judith Martin

  Ignorance, Skills, Ideas

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• Fate carries its own clock.

  Pearl Bailey

  Fate, Timing, Clock

  Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

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• A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

  Germaine Greer

  Marriage, Clever, Husband

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• what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

  Erica Jong

  Secret, Doe, Bottles

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

  Edmund Waller

  World, Admire, Retiring

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.187

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• Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.

  Rebecca West

  War, Hands, Psychology

  Rebecca West (1952). “The meaning of treason”

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• No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

  Dorothy Day

  Church, May, Matter

  Dorothy Day (2010). “All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day”, Ohio University Center for International Studies

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• The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.

  Lauren Bacall

  Girl, Nice, Purity

  Lauren Bacall (2010). “By Myself and Then Some”, p.1, Harper Collins

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