We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.
—George Eliot, 1860
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Cows are among the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them—and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
—Thomas De Quincey, 1821A person who sees only fashion in fashion is a fool.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1830Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.
—Frederick the Great, 1759Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
—Horace Walpole, 1784There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958