“Sneer, frown, and be miserable, for tomorrow you live.”
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 17 (p. 202)
“Sneer, frown, and be miserable, for tomorrow you live.”
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 17 (p. 202)
Michael Swanwick book The Iron Dragon's Daughter
Source: The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993), Chapter 6 (p. 88)
Ann Radcliffe book The Mysteries of Udolpho
Motto to the novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, presumed to be Radcliffe's own composition, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed
“Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Flames in the forehead of the morning sky", John Milton, Lycidas, line 168.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Like a Rolling Stone
“I need a map of your head, translated into English, so I can learn to not make you frown.”
Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist
Lyrics, Make Yourself (1999)
“If singing were all that serious, frowning would make you sound better.”
Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer
Source: How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger (1981), p. 122
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist
Dolcino to Margaret, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist
Interview with Oriana Fallaci (2 December 1979), Corriere della Sera
Interviews
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
A good Time going; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
No. 35, "Light Shining out of Darkness".
Olney Hymns (1779)
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
The Width of a Circle
Song lyrics, The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778) British politician
Speech in the House of Lords (18 November, 1777), responding to a speech by Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk, who spoke in favour of the war against the American colonists. Suffolk was a descendant of Howard of Effingham, who led the English navy against the Spanish Armada. Effingham had commissioned a series of tapestries on the defeat of the Armada, and sold them to King James I. Since 1650 they were hung in the House of Lords, where they remained until destroyed by fire in 1834.
William Pitt, The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the Speeches (London: Aylott & Jones, 1848), pp. 150-6.
Jimmy Wales (1966) Wikipedia co-founder and American Internet entrepreneur
Wikimania 2008 Alexandria, press conference, 0'14 (August 2008)
“We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged.”
Henry Knox (1750–1806) Continental Army and US Army general, US Secretary of War
Reported in David McCullough, 1776 (2005), p. 201.
“Yet no stiff and frowning face was hers, no undue austerity in her manners, but gay and simple loyalty, charm blended with modesty.”
Nec frons triste rigens nimiusque in moribus horror
sed simplex hilarisque fides et mixta pudori
gratia.
i, line 64
Silvae, Book V
Olaf Stapledon book Star Maker
Source: Star Maker (1937), Chapter XV: The Maker and His Works; 2. Mature Creating (p. 179)
“Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.”
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) British poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher
"Song. She is not fair"
Poems (1851)
William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) American journalist
"Valedictory" (29 December 1865) http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1865/12/29/valedictory in the last issue of The Liberator (1 January 1866) <br class="br">The Liberator (1831 - 1866)
“When Fortune smiles, I smile to think
How quickly she will frown.”
Robert Southwell (1561–1595) English Jesuit
Source: Content and Rich, Line 63; p. 59.
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Session 82, Page 314
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 2
Raphael Soyer (1899–1987) American artist
Then he died. He worked to the very last minute.
As quoted in Paper Lanterns (Quotations from The Sun) p. 59.
Doug Stanhope (1967) American stand-up comedian, actor, and author
Something to Take the Edge Off (2000)
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
"A Fable" (or "The Raven"), line 36.
Robert Greene (dramatist) (1558–1592) English author
"The Shepherd's Wife's Song", line 1, from Mourning Garment (1590); Dyce p. 305.
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) American labor and political leader
"An Ideal Labor Press," The Metal Worker (May 1904)
Hovhannes Bagramyan (1897–1982) Soviet military commander
Quoted in "I. C. Bagramyan: A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal" - Yerevan - 1987
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
"The Devil’s Advice to Story-tellers," lines 19–22, from Collected Poems 1938 (1938).
Poems
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, lin…
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Robertson Davies book The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)
Thomas Pynchon book V.
Source: V. (1963), Chapter Nine, Part II, Godolphin
Demi Moore (1962) American actress
Interview, Glamour Magazine, Aug 2011 http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/2011/09/glamour-interview-jennifer-aniston-demi-moore-and-alicia-keys-talk?currentPage=4
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1860s, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery? (1860)
Context: My argument against the dissolution of the American Union is this. It would place the slave system more exclusively under the control of the slave-holding states, and withdraw it from the power in the northern states which is opposed to slavery. Slavery is essentially barbarous in its character. It, above all things else, dreads the presence of an advanced civilization. It flourishes best where it meets no reproving frowns, and hears no condemning voices. While in the Union it will meet with both. Its hope of life, in the last resort, is to get out of the Union. I am, therefore, for drawing the bond of the Union more completely under the power of the free states. What they most dread, that I most desire. I have much confidence in the instincts of the slaveholders. They see that the Constitution will afford slavery no protection when it shall cease to be administered by slaveholders. They see, moreover, that if there is once a will in the people of America to abolish slavery, this is no word, no syllable in the Constitution to forbid that result. They see that the Constitution has not saved slavery in Rhode Island, in Connecticut, in New York, or Pennsylvania; that the Free States have only added three to their original number. There were twelve Slave States at the beginning of the Government: there are fifteen now.
Ba Jin (1904–2005) Chinese novelist
A Battle For Life (July 1958)
Context: According to the world's highest medical authorities, burns extending over 75 per cent of a person's body are regarded as likely to prove fatal. The burns of these two patients were not only extensive but also deep, even involving their muscles in many places. Therefore all the experienced surgeons frowned, shook their heads, and expressed their utter inability to save the lives of these men. One of them said, "It is only a matter of three or four days." Another suggested, "At most three days." Still a third one said, "Whether medicine is used or not is immaterial, for in spite of all efforts the patients will die." Everybody seemed to agree on one conclusion "death." In this way the joint consultation was concluded in a very pessimistic and hopeless atmosphere. On the basis of mortality statistics in international medical literature it seemed that these badly burned patients were doomed to die.
But the Party organization of the hospital would not agree to such a pessimistic view. The secretary of the general Party branch and the assistant secretary of the medical department branch immediately summoned the doctors treating the patients for a talk, and following that a meeting of all the responsible doctors was convened. The problem was analysed from a class viewpoint, and it was stressed that in capitalist countries it was impossible to obtain the full use of all resources to save the lives of burned workers, but that in our socialist country it was possible to mobilize everything available to save them. For this reason we should not always accept the medical statistics of capitalist countries and allow them to influence us. The Party secretary called the attention of the doctors specially to the following points: First, that they must try to rid themselves of their blind reliance on established bourgeois medical experience, and they must try to think, speak and act in bold new ways. Secondly, they must follow the mass line and depend more upon the power of the people. Finally he said, "The Party will do everything possible to save these steel workers who have created vast wealth for the nation."
Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925) electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist
Electromagnetic Theory (1912), Volume III; p. 1; "The Electrician" Pub. Co., London.
Context: The following story is true. There was a little boy, and his father said, “Do try to be like other people. Don’t frown.” And he tried and tried, but could not. So his father beat him with a strap; and then he was eaten up by lions.
Reader, if young, take warning by his sad life and death. For though it may be an honour to be different from other people, if Carlyle’s dictum about the 30 million be still true, yet other people do not like it. So, if you are different, you had better hide it, and pretend to be solemn and wooden-headed. Until you make your fortune. For most wooden-headed people worship money; and, really, I do not see what else they can do. In particular, if you are going to write a book, remember the wooden-headed. So be rigorous; that will cover a multitude of sins. And do not frown.
Greta Garbo (1905–1990) Swedish-American actress
Cecil Beaton, Book of Beauty (1930) <br class="br">Source: http://www.garboforever.com/Beatons_Book_of_Beauty.htm
John Herschel (1792–1871) English mathematician, astronomer, chemist and photographer
Address on the opening of the Eton Library (1833) as quoted in A History of Inventions, Discoveries and Origins (1846) by John Beckmann, Tr. William Johnston, Vol. 1, frontispiece. https://archive.org/details/historyofinventi01unse/page/n5/mode/2up