Great Throughts Treasury

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Euripedes NULL

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Quiet | Reserve | Silence |

Euripedes NULL

For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Quiet | Reserve | Silence |

Euripedes NULL

Youth holds no society with grief.

Silence |

Gustave Flaubert

It was for him that she had done it -- for this creature here, this man who understood nothing, who felt nothing.

Silence |

Gustave Flaubert

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

People | Punishment |

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

Beginning | Change | Silence | Understand |

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

Imagination | Knowledge | Light | Technology | Thinking |