1,646 Quotes About Lasts

To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

I feel like you have to make art because you have to make it. But the end result of it- that last stage- you have to show it to somebody else to hopefully get a rise or reaction out of them- [to see] if it'll affect someone else.