The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953
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That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
—Laurie Colwin, 1978The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734