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Alan Rickman5
English film, television and stage actor 1946–2016Related quotes
“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Source: Essays of Three Decades (1942)
“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
Neil Gaiman book American Gods
Source: American Gods (2001), Ch. 3
Context: Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley (1801–1881) Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Turner v. Collins (1871), L. R. 7 Ch. Ap. Ca. 340.
“Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes
That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
Second Week, First Day, Part i. Compare: "Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses", John Milton, L'Allegro, line 85.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) Historian
"The Bugbear of Relativism," p. 89
The Culture We Deserve (1989)
Context: Can an idea — a notion as abstract as Relativism — produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the lives and reputations? I am as far as anyone can be from denying the power of ideas in history, but the suggestion that a philosophy (as Relativism is often called) has perverted millions and debased daily life is on the face of it absurd. No idea working alone has ever demoralized society, and there have been plenty of ideas simpler and more exciting than Relativism.
“Plenty has made me poor.”
Inopem me copia fecit.
Book III, 466
Variant translation: Abundance makes me poor.
Metamorphoses (Transformations)