Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912
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I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.
—Giuseppe Verdi, 1900Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923