Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”
Source: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and … 1860–1935Related quotes
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here
I don't belong here”
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
Creep
Lyrics, Pablo Honey (1993)
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Concerning a Person whom he treated with Disregard, Chap. xxiv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Phillips Brooks (1835–1893) American clergyman and author
Actually said by Wendell Phillips, on the murder of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, which occurred on November 7, 1837.
Misattributed
Dennis Potter (1935–1994) English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist
Vote, vote, vote for Nigel Barton (1965)
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
