"Est" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Hominem justum in causa sua injustum est. Good my lords, let it be proved, either by the laws of the land, or the laws of God, that there ought not to be two Witnesses appointed; yet I will not stand to defend this point in law, if the king will have it so: it is no rare thing for a man ...
— State Trials, Political and Social - Volume 1 (of 2) • Various
... works of art and literature is the same. The fact is nothing unless the artist can give it life. Life comes from human personality. Ars est homo additus naturae. Art, that is, is nature seen through a temperament, the facts seen by a particular mind. The landscape into which the painter has put nothing of his own personality is fitter for a surveyor's office than for a picture gallery. The portrait which gives ...
— Dr. Johnson and His Circle • John Bailey
... on whom the sunshine had always an enlivening effect, as we sped along. "This is what you call sport—n'est ce pas? For you are a maritime race, is it ...
— Dross • Henry Seton Merriman
... read his celebrated epistle upon the famous Passage of the Rhine; and yet Louis was no reader, and is not supposed to have adopted them from these Memoirs. The thought is, in reality, fine, but might easily suggest itself to any other. "Cela est beau," said the monarch, "et je vous louerois davantage, si vous m'aviez moins loue." (The poetry is excellent, and I should praise you more had you praised ...
— Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Complete • Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
... often difficult to identify German work, but its chief characteristics may be said to include an exuberant realism and a fondness for minute detail. M. Bonnaffe has described this work in a telling phrase: "l'ensemble est tourmente, laborieux, touffu tumultueux." ...
— Illustrated History of Furniture - From the Earliest to the Present Time • Frederick Litchfield
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