Basil Quotes
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Basil Quotes & Sayings
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Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.
— Saint Basil
And always the cutting out and the buggering about and the buggering about and the rewriting and so on ...
— Basil Bunting
Poetry doesn't pay. But I need it. And so do you.
— Cory Basil
Then they started a fireAnd I burnt to ashes — Cory Basil
Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me.
— John Cleese
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
— Basil O'Connor
i dream a thousandwords before i
sleep. — Cory Basil
Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.
— Basil Hume
The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas.
— Basil Wolverton
The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before. Basil Hallward's compliments
— Oscar Wilde
Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
— Basil Rathbone
With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.
— Basil Moreau
Men are fools to invest in real estate.
— Basil Bunting
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
— Thomas More
Words are truly the image of the soul.
— Basil The Great
How we educate the mind will change with the times; how we cultivate the heart is and will remain timeless.
— Basil Moreau
Capital," cried Basil. "I could eat a stag, antlers and all. I say they they do make a wonderful nosebag for us wounded heroes, y'know.
— Brian Jacques
I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
— Oscar Wilde
For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.
— Basil Moreau
It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.
— Saint Basil
tree in bloom, a white farmhouse - potted basil in the kitchen
— Nancy Reisman
It is God's hand which has guided everything, and it is God whom we must thank above all.
— Basil Moreau
What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.
— Pete Townshend
For some strange reason, beans always fall off knives.
— Basil Wolverton
Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem.
— Basil McRae
Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.
— Saint Basil
The hardship in living out the vision comes from human frailty, and want of understanding; not from evil or malice. "Men
— Basil Johnston
No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
— Basil W. Maturin
Never discount good intentions, for good intentions may be all one has to offer. - Eilish in "No-Till" by Basil Pearl.
— Basil Pearl
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
— Oscar Wilde
I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.
— John Logan
Basil Donovan was drunk again.
— Robert Silverberg
Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
— Basil Bunting
And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.
— Claire Forlani
Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.
— Oscar Wilde
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit ... One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts ...
— Saint Basil
I'm more of a thistle-peony-basil kind of girl.
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.
— Saint Basil
If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.
— Saint Basil
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
— Basil Bunting
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
— Basil Rathbone
I trembled. I was done. This was it. I wanted to die, right here in the kitchen, beside my precious basil.
— Scott Hildreth
Whose fault is it, then? Dennis Compton's (Basil Fawlty)
— John Cleese
He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.
— Saint Basil
He wore pink linen slacks, white sneakers and a canary yellow open-neck shirt. He evidently thought himself hot stuff.
— Basil Copper
a first kiss is like a drug
— Cory Basil
Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.
— Saint Basil
There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
— Saint Basil
But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
— Basil Bunting
Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.
— Basil Bunting
annunciations are frequent. incarnations are rare.
— Saint Basil
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
— Saint Basil
My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil.
— Isabella Rossellini
Nothing, Basil. I'll see you in a few,"Fine, and it's Lord Basil."
Even in the bedroom?"
Especially in the bedroom. — Adrian Phoenix
Tip: To avoid bruising the basil, Mama tore the leaves into pieces with her fingers. Chopping is fine, but you won't have basil-scented fingers.
— Johnny Carrabba
Our pasta primavera was born when I promised fresh pasta with tomatoes and basil to critic Craig Claiborne, but we had no tomatoes.
— Sirio Maccioni
who you are is who you are when you are alone.
— Cory Basil
Don't bury your sense of wonder. It's a rare thing, and one of the things I adore most about you" -Basil
— Lauren DeStefano
Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.
— Basil Bunting
It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.
— Saint Basil
Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166
— Basil Bunting
Life is too short to try and glue together broken plates that were cheap in the first place.
— Cory Basil
It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.
— Oscar Wilde
was the living death of his own soul that troubled him. Basil had painted the portrait that had marred his
— Oscar Wilde
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.
— Saint Basil
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
— Saint Basil
The mason stirs.Words!
Pens are too light.
Take a chisel to write. — Basil Bunting