Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885
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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873I cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCHygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BCReputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955