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| Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. | Christina Rossetti | 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist |
| For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you. | Christina Rossetti | 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist |
| Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world. | Christine Collange | |
| Laughter is the most healthful exertion. | Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland | |
| If you want to be a winner, hang around with winners. | Christopher D. Furman | |
| The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch. | Christopher Fieldes | British Financial Journalist |
| Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. | Christopher Fry | 1907-, British Playwright |
| The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate. | Christopher Fry | 1907-, British Playwright |
| I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth. | Christopher Hampton | 1946-, British Playwright |
| Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. | Christopher Hampton | 1946-, British Playwright |
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| I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed. | Christopher Hampton | 1946-, British Playwright |
| To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervour and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? | Christopher Hampton | 1946-, British Playwright |
| I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. | Christopher Hampton | 1946-, British Playwright |
| Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege. | Christopher Hill | 1912-, British Historian |
| Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. | Christopher Isherwood | |
| Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. | Christopher Lasch | 1932-, American Historian |
| The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. | Christopher Lasch | 1932-, American Historian |
| It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison. | Christopher Lasch | 1932-, American Historian |
| A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. | Christopher Lasch | 1932-, American Historian |
| Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. | Christopher Lasch | 1932-, American Historian |
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| Do you realize what this means? The fact of being alive... I still find it staggering that I am here at all. | Christopher Leach | American Poet |
| Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever. | Christopher Leach | American Poet |
| Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. | Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet |
| You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell. | Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet |
| O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. | Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet |
| All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial. | Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet |
| Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum? | Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet |
| Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis? | Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet |
| Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be. | Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet |
| What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? | Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet |
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| Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove. | Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet |
| Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? | Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet |
| Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight? | Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet |
| I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence. | Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet |
| Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| New York, the nation's thyroid gland. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
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| The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. | Christopher Morley | 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet |
| You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile. | Christopher Reeve | 1952-, American Actor, Director |
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