“If love lives by hope, it perishes with it; it is a fire which becomes extinguished from want of fuel…”
From an English translation of “Le Cid”, a French renaissance play by Pierre Corneille. (1636)
Category: Three quotes for three days
Three Quotes for Three Days: Quote the Second
“… there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
From “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde. (1890)
Three Quotes for Three Days: Quote the First
“Go, go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my
pleasure, business.”
From “The Country Wife” (1675), a comedy from the English Reformation era by William Wycherley.
Nominated by: The Showers of Blessing (thank you!). Paying it forward, I wish to nominate:
- Atomic Words
- Jem Croucher (publishes at Poet’s Corner)
- Morgan
Apologies but only mild ones if any of you have already been nominated. 🙂
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