By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745
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Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCThe most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
—Virginia Woolf, 1899Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.
—George Eliot, 1860