Samuel Prout quotes

“Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.”
-- Samuel Prout

Source : Samuel Prout, Rudolph Ackermann (1838). “Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting”, p.7

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“Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.”
-- Samuel Prout

Source : Samuel Prout, Rudolph Ackermann (1838). “Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting”, p.7

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“The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.”

“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”

“Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.”

“There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?”

Source : Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1629, Del Rey

“Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.”

“I just feel that if somebody happened to fancy somebody else, well, then, I should be a friend that he can say it to.”

“A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.”

“The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.”

“Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.”