Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837
Archive
Quotes
It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002I shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
—Hannah Arendt, 1972I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881There is something stirring in the way civilization gapes like a savage at the achievements of nature.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865