Quotes · Skopia

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Place·Hertfordshire✕clear

No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.

1877

★ 1.8

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland

1988

★ 1.8

To desire to have many books, and never to use them, is like a childe that will have a candle burning by him all the while he is sleeping.

1622

★ 1.9

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

Retirement · 1782

★ 1.9

Play · Comedy (play) · Comedy

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

All Fools · 1605

★ 1.9

God made the country, and man made the town.

1785

★ 1.9

England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-My country!

1785

★ 1.9

No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.

1948

★ 1.9

In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

The Heart of the Matter · 1948

★ 2.0

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

The Quiet American · 1955

★ 2.0

Play · Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron · 1608

★ 3.5

Play · Tragedy (play)

When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible.

1679

★ 3.5

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.

Light Shining out of Darkness · 1779

★ 3.5

He likes the country, but in truth must own, Most likes it, when he studies it in town.

1782

★ 3.5

But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

The Winter Morning Walk · 1785

★ 3.5

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

1877

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

Success is more dangerous than failure, (the ripples break over a wider coastline).

1980

★ 3.5

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

Conversations · 1782

★ 3.6

Grief is itself a med'cine.

1782

★ 3.6

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid.

1782

★ 3.6

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