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The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past — and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary.
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame anima — following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. — G.K. Chesterton
Your husband certainly love money,' she said. 'That is no lie Money have pretty face for everybody, but for that man mon — Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
We are in this fairyland on sufferance — it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this wild vision of the world.
You shouldn't be in here! — Evelyn Winters, The Little Big Clockmaker
Divine justice pursued its course; disasters came thick on me: I was forced to pass through the valley of the shadow of — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
To try and fail is at least to learn — to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
For many years there have been rumours of mind control experiments. in the United States. In the early 1970s, the first — Cheryl Hersha, Secret Weapons: How Two Sisters Were Brainwashed To Kill For Their Country
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician t — two is two thousand times one.
Hell had been his Vietnam. It had stamped its mark on him for all eternity, and no amount of denial or self-imposed igno — Joe Schreiber, The Unholy Cause
But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a — G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
He understood (what so many fautlessly polite people do not understand) that a stiff apology is a second insult. He unde — he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
The eccentric passion of Shankly was underlined for me by my England team-mate Roger Hunt's version of the classic tale — Bobby Charlton, Sir Bobby Charlton: The Autobiography: My Manchester United Years
Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes — and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.
If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language — one is less likely to be seduced into excusing it.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump — you may be freeing him from being a camel.
If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if — H.G. Wells
Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of about ideas. The old ci — G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered
If I had one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against Pride. The more I see of existence...the more I am convinced — G.K. Chesterton