188 quotes found
“...dangers, to Francisco, were merely opportunities for another brilliant performance; there were no battles he could lose, no enemies to beat him.”
“If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: 'The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!”
“Nothing can justify injustice.”
“Dont tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.”
“He knew that the dread in these mens minds was not of the fact, but of his naming itas if the fact had not existed, but his words held the power to make it exist.”
“Well, whose opinion did you take?I dont ask for opinions.What do you go by?Judgment.Well, whose judgment did you take?Mine.But whom did you consult about it?Nobody.”
“The capacity for unclouded enjoyment, she thought, does not belong to irresponsible fools; an inviolate peace of spirit is not the achievement of a drifter; to be able to laugh like that is the end...”
“You always play it open, dont you? he asked.Ive never noticed you doing otherwise.I thought I was the only one who could afford to.”
