Samuel Laman Blanchard Quotes
1804–1845 England
Samuel Laman Blanchard (May 15, 1804 – February 15, 1845) was an English poet, essayist and journalist.
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Also known as: Blanchard, Laman, Blanchard, Samuel Laman, Laman Blanchard
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None are so easily taken in as the "knowing ones."
Forewarned, forearmed, is sheer nonsense.
Man will take anything you like, except warning.
The course of truth never yet ran smooth.
As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not."
Tell her she is not to be imposed upon, and you impose upon her effectually. Admire her penetration, and you will not find her impenetrable.
It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.
Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?
Rumors confirm themselves when duly circulated.
Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity.
No longer would we imprison thee though thou art all gentleness and would chat and jest with us by the hour.
Of Shakespeare, not a line but has been repeatedly, and will continue to be cited, as a commentary on the great and various volume of human nature.
Everybody's word is worth Nobody's taking.
We insist on self-roasting, by slow degrees, and at regular intervals, to show our contempt for experience, and to develop our chief virtue, which is obstinacy.
When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.
What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?
Everybody is seldom to be believed. "They say" is not proof that they know. On dit is French for a fib.
Wherever two or three are gathered together, one, at least, has left his head at home in his night-cap, or hung it up in his hat as he entered.
How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!"
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.