‘A man does not go mad because he makes a statue a mile high, but he may go mad by thinking it out in square inches.’
-G. K. Chesterton-
‘A man does not go mad because he makes a statue a mile high, but he may go mad by thinking it out in square inches.’
-G. K. Chesterton-
‘The man’s tone cold and soupy: and, scanning his face, I observed on it an “if-you-would-only-be-guided-by-me” expression which annoyed me intensely. There are moments when Jeeves looks just like an aunt.’
-Jeeves and the Kid Clementine-
“The reason Abraham Lincoln was Abraham Lincoln was because he was the only person who got to be Abraham Lincoln.”
-Pastor Stoltenow-
“No, you’re Lutherans; you’re supposed to be boring.”
-Rev. Peperkorn-
“On my planet, to rest is to rest; to cease using energy. To me, it is quite illogical to run up and down on green grass using energy instead of saving it.”
-Spock (Shore Leave)-
“There, of course, I stumbled against Lady Brandon. ‘You are not going to run away so soon, Mr. Hallward?’ she screamed out. You know her curiously shrill voice?”
“Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty.”
-The Picture of Dorian Gray-
“You don’t have to agree with me on everything; you can be wrong if you want to.”
“They say that when good Americans die they go to Paris,” chuckled Sir Thomas…
“Really! and where do bad Americans go to when they die?” inquired the Duchess.
“They go to America,” murmured Lord Henry.
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
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