A Quote by William Cobbett

He who writes badly thinks badly

William Cobbett

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William Cobbett
English - Politician
March 9, 1763 - June 18, 1835

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power.

Claire Tomalin

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

Baron de Montesquieu

Most of intellectuals are false prophets, flatterers of the court. The real prophets are the exception and treated badly. How badly they're treated depends on the society. Like in Eastern Europe, they were treated very badly. In Latin America, they were slaughtered.

Noam Chomsky

I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.

Jeanne Calment

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.

Nick Hornby

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

Ernest Hemingway

You've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've got nothing.

Tony Grisoni

I'm a terrible Christian and meditating is very hard for me, and I do it. I do it badly, like I do a lot of things. I believe in doing things badly.

Anne Lamott

Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.

Anna Akhmatova

If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.

Pep Guardiola

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

George Edward Moore

Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken.

Hudson Stuck

Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

Florence Nightingale

The failure of 'Naach' shook me badly. I have never really been upset about any film doing badly. But 'Naach' was something else.

Antara Mali

I believe in listening to the - what calls you from your heart and your spirit and if you do it badly, like learning to dance, you do it badly or you're going to kick yourself when you grow old and you meant to do it.

Anne Lamott

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