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  •    And everyone will say, As you walk your mystic way, 'If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me, Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!'

    - Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
    Bunthorne's song, Patience, act1.

  • Let's find out what everyone is doing And then stop everyone from doing it.

    - SirA(lan) P(atrick) Herbert
      'Let's Stop Somebody from Doing Something'.

  • Every one is more or less mad on one point.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      Plain Tales from the Hills,'On the Strength of a Likeness'.

  • Everyone suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom,

    - Siegfried Louvain Sassoon
      'Everyone Sang'.

  • Utrumque enim vitium est, et omnibus credere et nulli. It is equally unsound to trust everyone and to trust no one.

    -Seneca full name Lucius AnnaeusSeneca called theYounger
    Epistulae, 3.4.

  •    Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone.

    - Robin Skelton
    A Devious Dictionary.

  • Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.Everyone who isborn holds dual citizenship, inthekingdomofthewell and inthekingdomofthesick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooneror latereach of us is obliged, at least fora spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

    - Susan Sontag
      In the NewYork Review of Books, 26 Jan.

  •    It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love† It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it.

    - Anthony Trollope
      Autobiography, ch.12.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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