"Apophthegm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... comes in the peculiarly paralysing effect of these baser emotions. As Victor Hugo once said, in a fine apophthegm, "Despair yawns." Fear and anxiety bring with them a particular kind of physical fatigue which makes us listless and inert. They lie on the spirit with a leaden dullness, which takes from us all possibility of ...
— Where No Fear Was - A Book About Fear • Arthur Christopher Benson
... traditional maxims! History! Facts dramatised say rather—action—plot— Sentiment, everything the writer's own, As it bests fits the web-work of his story, With here and there a solitary fact Of consequence, by those grave chroniclers, Pointed with many a moral apophthegm, And wise old saws, ...
— Friends in Council (First Series) • Sir Arthur Helps |
