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In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

Quote by James Payn about univers, literary critic, education

There is a universality to comedy.

Quote by Simon Pegg about comedy

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about bad luck, good luck, people

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about politics, interest, peace

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, tragedy, fear, things

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Quote by Friedrich Schlegel about philosophy

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Quote by Herbert Spencer about ignorance

Mihai Eminescu is the absolute melancholy of Romanian people, in universal tender expansion.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about aphorisms, absolute, people

"He never listens" is universal in the institution of marriage.

DQuote by Dorothy Mackaye about marriage

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly.

Quote by Julian Patrick Barnes about writers, nature

... a universal history can not be based on written documents - but only on spiritual documents: this means on the myths and beliefs.

Quote by Mircea Eliade about history

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer about solitude