Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Television is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976Big head, little wit.
—French proverbLet the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
—Albert Camus, 1957All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleWit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678