56 Quotes by Howard Pyle

For every man may sin, and yet again may sin; yet still is he God’s handiwork, and still God is near by His handiwork to aid him ever to a fresh endeavour to righteousness.

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

Such were the travelers along the way; but fat abbot, rich esquire, or money-laden usurer came there none.

I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.

It doth make a man better,′ quoth Robin Hood, ‘to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list to such tales, his soul doth say, ‘put by thy poor little likings and seek to do likewise.’ Truly, one may not do as nobly one’s self, but in the striving one is better...

And now, dear friend, you who have journeyed with me in all these merry doings, I will not bid you follow me further, but will drop your hand here with a good den, if you wish it, for that which cometh herafter, speaks of the breaking up of things, and shows how joys and pleasures that are dead and gone can never be set upon their feet to walk again.

If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the picture will be really too weak to consider at all and the human interest would be entirely lost.

Once I slew a man, and never do I wish to slay a man again, for it is bitter for the soul to think thereon.

However, if Sir Launcelot of the Lake failed now and then in his behavior, who is there in the world shall say, ‘I never fell into error’? And if he more than once offended, who is there shall have hardihood to say, ‘I never committed offence’?