15 quotes found
“Many are called, few are chosen.”
“Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.”
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
“Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.”
“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before its damaged for ever and whats done can never be undone.”
“We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.”
“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.”
“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...”
“Hypocrites, replied Cale, Ive come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.”
“In such a beast as this..." (he means the army)"...it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at once falling under its own weight as much as that of its enemy....”
“The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.”
“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 rea...”
“Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.”
“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.”
