Literature Quotes - Page 89

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.