The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830
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Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
—Karl Kraus, 1912Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853I cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCA person who sees only fashion in fashion is a fool.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1830Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
—Plato, c. 378 BC