Quotes · Skopia

34 quotes

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Place·Birmingham, England✕clear

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

1962

★ 1.2

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

1977

★ 1.7

A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces, An airline ticket to romantic places; And still my heart has wings These foolish things Remind me of you.

These Foolish Things Remind Me of You · 1935

★ 1.8

Radio broadcast

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.

Neville Chamberlain

1938

★ 1.8

Radio broadcast · Speech

This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final Note stating that unless we heard from them by 11 0'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.

Neville Chamberlain

1939

★ 1.8

That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third. Were axioms to him, who'd never heard Of any world where promises were kept, Or one could weep because another wept.

The Shield of Achilles · 1952

★ 1.9

Though the great artists of the past could not change the course of history, it is only through their work that we are able to break bread with the dead, and without communion with the dead a fully human life is impossible.

1967

★ 1.9

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews. Not to be born is the best for man.

1937

★ 1.9

Like love we don't know where or why Like love can't compel or fly Like love we often weep Like love we seldom keep

Law like Love · 1939

★ 1.9

Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

1962

★ 1.9

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

1973

★ 1.9

The Godhead is broken like bread. We are the pieces.

Herman Melville · 1939

★ 2.0

We must love one another or die.

September 1,1939 · 1939

★ 2.0

Novel · Fantasy

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

1954

★ 2.0

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

1962

★ 2.0

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.

1973

★ 2.0

Novel · Fantasy

Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring · 1954

★ 2.1

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

1936

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

For the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.

Neville Chamberlain

1938

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

Neville Chamberlain

1938

★ 3.5

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