William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory."
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Vapour
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . ."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it."
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