53 Prologue Quotes

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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities. — Rudyard Kipling

The beginning is the most important part of the work. — Plato

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Another story must begin! — Victor Hugo

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black. — Dylan Thomas

To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous. — Plato

The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed. — Plato

A good beginning makes a good end. — English Proverbs

As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading. — Marie Clay

An unusual beginning must have an unusual end. — Mikhail Lermontov

Seance to renaissance. So it begins - Marilyn Manson

Seance to renaissance. So it begins — Marilyn Manson

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good. — Pythagoras

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it. — Mary E. Pearson

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. — Seneca

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. - Seneca The Elder

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. — Seneca The Elder

Short Prologue Quotes

  • What is past is prologue. — William Shakespeare
  • Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion — William Shakespeare
  • Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. — William Congreve
  • Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge. — William Shakespeare
  • The past is prologue. — William Shakespeare
  • Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous. — Margaret Fuller
  • Honest error may play prologue to wonders. — Ari Berk
  • Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written. — Andrea Brown

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More Prologue Quotes

I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized because I realized that there was a science-based path that would take me from my job as a perennial “victim” to my new position as “co-creator” of my destiny. (Prologue, xv) — Bruce H. Lipton

Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love. — William Shakespeare

I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world. — Pat Conroy

A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue. — Muhammadu Buhari

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you. — Oscar Peterson

I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me. — Fernando Pessoa

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach. — Mary Roach

From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves. It helps you imagine birth. I want imagination in the photographs I take. It's like a prologue. You wonder, What's going on? You feel something is going to happen. — Rinko Kawauchi

Avoid prologues: they can be ­annoying, especially a prologue ­following an introduction that comes after a foreword. — Elmore Leonard

Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys. — Francis Quarles

How many pages are there in my life?? I’ve read only a prologue.. But personally it’s exciting already. — Minzy

Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish. — George Farquhar

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge. — William Shakespeare

A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. — James Madison

A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game. — Graham Nelson

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. — James Madison

Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of the gutter. No, by "chestnuts" I mean, "those old pieces of writing advice that you hear as common refrain." 'Write what you know.' 'Adverbs give Baby Jesus hemorrhoids.' 'If you write a prologue, an orphan loses his sight.' All the "old saws" need to be put on the chopping block. — Chuck Wendig

I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as a prologue, but I find the word "intention," confusing ("trust the art," as D.H. Lawrence said, "not the artist"). These speculations are perhaps better responded to by text and reader, rather than author. — Laura Mullen

The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts? — Philip Yancey

The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose. — Wallace Stevens

Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathersand their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading to the restoration of the gospel... America, the land of liberty, was to be the Lord's latter-day base of operations for His restored church. — Ezra Taft Benson

Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified. — Rachel Vincent

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