Commonly Quotes

It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.