H. G. Wells Quotes, Art Quotes, Lying Quotes

No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

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Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , Waiting Quotes

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Art Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.

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Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Art Quotes , Perfection Quotes

The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.

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Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock; and he should endeavour to show in his actions greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his private dealings with his subjects let him show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain himself in such reputation that no one can hope either to deceive him or to get round him.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Real Quotes

One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.

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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.

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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Art Quotes , Soul Quotes

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Character Quotes

We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Art Quotes , Soul Quotes

RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Art Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible.

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Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

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