Quotes

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it. ~ The Title by Arnold Bennett A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought. ~ Zuleika Dobson by Sir Max Beerbohm The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything. ~ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege. ~ The Little Minister by James M. Barrie We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours. ~ The Little Minister by James M. Barrie The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ~ The Little Minister by James M. Barrie There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against; if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler To me it seems that those who are happy in this world are better and more lovable people than those who are not. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler Youth is like spring, an overpraised season. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler