“Pope abounds in quotable things, chiefly from his habit of making every line rest on its own merits—a circumstance that accounts, in its turn, for the strong resemblance his couplets bear to each other.”
"Quotations".
Sketches from Life (1846)
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British author and journalist 1804–1845Related quotes
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 67.
“Each of us bears his own Hell.”
Quisque suos patimur manis.
Variant: Each one his own hope.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 743
“Every state must be aware that its peace, its security rests on its own sword.”
Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) German statesman, Chancellor of Germany
All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 5. A prospectus by the military Chazal and Brialmont, The military centipede Henri-Alexis Brialmont (1821-1893) http://www.ethesis.net/leopold_II/leopold_II.htm#2.%20 CROKAERT, P. Brialmont, 183. <br class="br">Undated
Cy Twombly (1928–2011) American painter
a written art note by Twombly on a painting he created in 1957
Quote of Twombly in 'Writings', Flash Art International, Laura Cherubini, October 2008 (translation from Italian: Beatrice Barbareschi)
1950 - 1960
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina
Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.
Pt. I, ch. 1
Variant translations: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Variant: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Three Worlds, Three Summers — But Not the Summer Just Past.
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CXV: On the Superficial Blessings
