Sample Essays & Free Papers For You

A reliable academic resource for high school and college students.
Essay database with free papers will provide you with original and creative ideas.

Quotations

It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. SwiftPapers now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

Browse Authors

(Click a letter to view the authors)
A B C D E F G H I
J
K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Joshua Reynolds Quotes

«The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.»
Author: Joshua Reynolds (Painter) | About: Character | Keywords: Real Character
«A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts»
Author: Joshua Reynolds (Painter) | Keywords: hung
«The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it»
Author: Joshua Reynolds (Painter) | About: Greatness | Keywords: corrupts
«If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.»
«All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master»
«Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.»
«Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing»
«Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work»
Author: Joshua Reynolds (Painter) | About: Words
«There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.»
Author: Joshua Reynolds (Painter) | About: Effort, Laziness, Thinking | Keywords: expedient
«It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk»
Author: Joshua Reynolds (Painter) | Keywords: eloquence, orator