Sample Essays & Free Papers For You

Questions? Email Us or
Live Chat
A reliable academic resource for high school and college students.
Essay database with free papers will provide you with original and creative ideas.

Quotations

It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. SwiftPapers now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

Browse Authors

(Click a letter to view the authors)
A B C D E F G H I J K L
M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes

«Every invalid is a prisoner»
«A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.»
«I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.»
Author: Marguerite Yourcenar (Writer) | Keywords: sauce, seasoned
«Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.»
«When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is complex.»
«Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children.»
«[*] Memoirs of Hadrian ... Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time.»