The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911
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Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
—Desmond Tutu, 1984The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955One’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922