Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the grea…

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of …

Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over his o…

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

Stop talking and kiss her, Moses With all due respect, Jethro, that's not for you to decide Stop talking and kiss me Now you, you get a vote