Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.
Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.