irresistible quotes

The theatre is irresistible: organise the theatre.

- Matthew Arnold
  Irish Essays,'The French Play in London'.

If the changes we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language, preface.