I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944
Archive
Quotes
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
—Olive Schreiner, 1883Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanAn unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCThe more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1790