42 quotes found
“Many are called, few are chosen.”
“Better a live dog than a dead lion.”
“Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.”
“Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.”
“The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man.”
“How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?""You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine th...”
“You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller.”
“No one of real intelligence will accept anything just because some authority declares it be so. Don't accept the truth of anything you have not confirmed for yourself.”
“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is that nobody really possesses a great kind of power for long....”
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
“I have a message for your daughter, said Cale. I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the coo...”
“t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while ther...”
“It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.”
“...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him bec...”
“...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.”
“... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest nightamidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest ...”
“Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.”
“Do you have any idea how mad you sound?Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity. (...)And?Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, h...”
“The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dogs dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to fee...”
“We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.”
“Hypocrites, replied Cale, Ive come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.”
“Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of ragebut always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and...”
“...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell ...”
