A Quote by Voltaire

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

Voltaire

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Always Been Loved Luxury Prose Thousand Thousand Years Two Verse Years

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane

Lord Byron

The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.

Natalie Babbitt

The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

Lord Byron

The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has never before, in the world's history, been an epoch which has tolerated and even welcomed such a flood of verse as has been poured forth over Great Britain during the last three years.

Edmund Gosse

Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.

Bret Easton Ellis

I've been lucky. I've been in that top two or three for 11 years at two weight classes. It's been a crazy journey. It's been awesome.

Joseph Benavidez

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

Moliere

The historical relationship between Christians and Jews for most of the two thousand years of Christianity has not been good and it's been mostly persecution by Christians of Jews - not all the time, not every place, but mostly it's been that. I think that's just a terribly regretful thing. I don't see it anywhere in the Scriptures that I read, that Christians are to persecute Jews. I think it's been quite damaging. I think it's been a bad witness.

Sam Brownback

I've always loved coach Brett Brown. I've been on record. I've been a fan of his for years.

Jamal Crawford

There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.

Isaac D'Israeli

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

Cecil B. DeMille

Two thousand years ago, we abandoned imperialism and militarism. We have been peace-lovers ever since.

Sun Yat-sen

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

John Drinkwater

Donald Trump always used to say, "Oh, what have you been doing for 30 years?" And I always found that kind of odd because you could Google it and find out. And, you know, I've been a lawyer and I've been a First Lady and I've been a senator and I've been secretary of state.