Isthat Quotes
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How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing.
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Bot for men sein, and soth it is,That who that al of wisdom writIt dulleth ofte a mannes witTo him that schal it aldai rede,For thilke cause, if that ye rede,I wolde go the middel weieAnd wryte a bok betwen the tweie,Somwhat of lust, somewhat of lore.
john gower— Prologue, line 12.
One of the few things I have learned in life isthat there is invariablysomething odd about womenwho wearankle socks.
Alan Bennett— 1977 The Old Country, act1.
The most fundamental value of a liberal education isthat it makes life more interesting.
brewster, kingman, jr.— Recalled on his death in the NewYork Times, 9 Nov1988.
Thething whichamazesme isthat I know perfectly well, as a historian, that there is corruption in any governmentthere's always corruption. It's bad when it's more than fifteen percent.
— Interviewed by Ramsay Cook in Eleanor Cook (ed) The Craft of History (1973).
My general impression isthat Englishmen act better than Frenchmen, and Frenchwomen better than Englishwomen.
(Enoch) Arnold Bennett— 1909 Cupid and Commonsense, preface.
It is only when you get to see and realize what India isthat she is the strength and the greatness of Englandthat you feel that every nerve a man may strain, every energy he may put forward, cannot be devoted to a nobler purpose than keeping tight the cords that hold India to ourselves.
Lord George Nathaniel Curzon (of Kedleston)— 1893 Speech at Southport,15 May.
You have a row of dominoes set up.You knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last isthat it will go over very quickly.
— 1954 Explaining the domino theory in relation to SE Asia,7 Apr.
What I'd really liketosayabout stardom isthat it gave me everything I never wanted.
— 1990 Ava: My Story.
The worstthing thatcanhappento oldgoodmusic isthat it might become dated for a while, but watch out, in twenty years it will come drifting back like bell-bottoms and W.C. Fields movies.
— 1974 Raise Up Off Me (with Don Asher), ch.22.
What characterizes a member of a minority group isthat he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Norman Kingsley Mailer— 1966 Cannibals and Christians, 'A Speech At Berkeley on Vietnam Day'.
Thetrouble isthat we drink toomuchtea.I see inthisthe slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
— 1949 In the Observer,15 May.
Fineart isthat inwhichthe hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
john ruskin— 1859 TheTwo Paths, lecture 2.
