25 quotes found
“Malicious men may die, but malice never.”
“Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.”
“The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.”
“Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.”
“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
“It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.”
“Its as if you think you'd never findReason and the Sacred intertwined”
“A million years ago - some hairy bastard daubed a horse on the wall of his cave, he saw it, he drew it - well done! Flash forward: 'Hello, welcome to my vlog. Today I bought a plum”
“I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it...”
“We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing ...”
“There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every on...”
“You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him. People are a...”
“If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without f...”
“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
“We pimp our precious lives to the infernal gnashing babble - Follow me! Friend me! Like me! But don't ever know me.”
“A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”
“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.”
“Betrayed and wronged in everything,Ill flee this bitter world where vice is king,And seek some spot unpeopled and apartWhere Ill be free to have an honest heart.”
“My hate is general, I detest all men;Some because they are wicked and do evil,Others because they tolerate the wicked,Refusing them the active vigorous scornWhich vice should stimulate in virtuous ...”
“Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?”
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
