Mortals Quotes

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.