1920 · Skopia

Showing 36 quotes from 1920

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

The Second Coming · 1920

★ 9.6

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

The Second Coming · 1920

★ 8.9

Are you lost daddy I asked tenderly. Shut up he explained.

1920

★ 6.0

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,- My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

Dulce et Decorum Est · 1920

★ 6.0

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

William Ralph Inge

The Idea of Progress · 1920

★ 5.9

Political literature

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged... On account of sex.

1920

★ 5.5

Political literature

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil.

Walter Lippmann

1920

★ 5.1

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Margaret Sanger

Woman and the New Race · 1920

★ 4.4

The girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise · 1920

★ 3.9

The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for its force to be renewed.

Benito Mussolini

1920

★ 3.7

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1920

★ 3.7

The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.

1920

★ 3.7

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

1920

★ 3.6

Died some, pro patria, Non 'dulce' non 'et decor'… Walked eye-deep in hell Believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving Came home, home to a lie.

1920

★ 3.5

From religion comes a man's purpose; from science his power to achieve it.

William Henry Bragg

1920

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.

Warren G. Harding

1920

★ 3.5

Essay · Magazine

It is not that the Englishman can't feel—it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks—his pipe might fall out if he did.

1920

★ 3.5

It is only that which cannot be expressed otherwise that is worth expressing in music.

Frederick Delius

1920

★ 3.5

What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-blind or not-a good world to live in, a promising universe.... We once thought we lived on God's footstool; it may be a throne.

Clarence S. Day

This Simian World · 1920

★ 3.4

Historical literature

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

1920

★ 2.8

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