“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
Oscar Wilde

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · COOL
Read 200 of the best cool quotes about keeping calm, effortless style, confidence and cool evenings, from Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and more.
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
Oscar Wilde
“I wish I had said that. - You will, Oscar, you will.”
James McNeill Whistler
“I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.”
James McNeill Whistler
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
Walt Whitman
“I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
Walt Whitman
“Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”
Samuel Johnson
“I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.”
Sydney Smith
“I quote others only the better to express myself.”
Michel de Montaigne
“This is no time to make new enemies.”
Voltaire
“Above all, not too much zeal.”
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Publish and be damned.”
Duke of Wellington
“I have only one eye - I have a right to be blind sometimes. I really do not see the signal!”
Horatio Nelson
“There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too.”
Francis Drake
“I have not yet begun to fight!”
John Paul Jones
“Come and take them.”
Leonidas
“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art.”
John Keats
“Art thou pale for weariness of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth?”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Or if the secret ministry of frost shall hang them up in silent icicles, quietly shining to the quiet Moon.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“Sweet and low, sweet and low, wind of the western sea.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons.”
Emily Dickinson
“Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. By the breath of God frost is given.”
The Bible (Job 37:9-10)
“He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.”
The Bible (Psalm 147:16)
“For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth.”
The Bible (Isaiah 55:10)