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Norman Angell

Sir Norman Angell, born Ralph Norman Angell Lane, (26 December 1872 – 7 October 1967) was a British economist, lecturer, writer, Member of Parliament for the Labour Party, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933.

Quotes

 * God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.
 * "Canada's Best Service for British Ideals" (1913)

 * The Council of the Union of Democratic Control re-affirms its unshaken conviction that a lasting settlement cannot be secured by a peace based upon the right of conquest and followed by commercial war, but only by a peace which gives just consideration to the claims of nationality, and which lays the foundation of a real European partnership.
 * The Union of Democratic Control (10 October 1916)

 * Political nationalism has become, for the European of our age the most important thing in the world, more important than civilization, humanity, decency, kindness, pity, more important than life itself.
 * The Unseen Assassins (1932), p. 48; in later variants, "pity" was misquoted as "piety" in the Naval War College Review, Vol. 10 (1957), p. 27, and some internet citations have compressed "has become, for the European of our age" to read "has become for our age".

All nations are quite ready to condemn "in the abstract" armaments, economic nationalism, international suspicion and mistrust, while each one individually clings to his armament, adds to his tariff, invents new modes of economic nationalism, and insists upon an absolute national sovereignty which must make international order impossible and the prolongation of anarchy and chaos inevitable.
 * While it is fashionable to-day to declare that "war does not pay" nearly everyone believes that policies which lead inevitably to war do pay. Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which, if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
 * "Relevance of The Great Illusion to Our Present Problems", in The Great Illusion 1933 (1933), p. 4; also stated in The Great Illusion — Now  (1939), p. 62

 * The root problem is very simply stated: if there were no sovereign independent states, if the states of the civilized world were organized in some sort of federalism as the states of the American Union, for instance, are organized, there would be no international war as we know it. ... The main obstacle is nationalism.
 * Statement of 1933, as quoted in Journal of Peace Studies (1994), p. 54; also partly quoted in Logic (1989) by Robert Baum, p. 87

 * It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.
 * As quoted in American Railway Engineering Association : Proceedings of the Annual Convention, Volume 51 (1950), p. 815; also quoted in Forbes Book of Quotations: 10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life (2016), edited by Ted Goodman

 * I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines.
 * After All (1951)

The Great Illusion (1910)

 * Initially an essay published at Angell's expense as Europe's Optical Illusion (1909), all subsequent editions were titled The Great Illusion.

 * This book endeavors to clear away the mists which prevent so many from seeing the road.

 * The elaborate financial interdependence of the modern world has grown up in spite of ourselves. Men are fundamentally just as disposed as they were at any time to take wealth that does not belong to them. But their relative interest in the matter has changed. In very primitive conditions robbery is a moderately profitable enterprise. Where the rewards of labor are small and uncertain, and where all wealth is portable, the size of a man’s wealth depends a good deal on the size of his club and the agility with which he wields it. But to the man whose wealth so largely depends upon his credit, dishonesty has become as precarious and profitless as honest toil was in more primitive times. The instincts of the City man may at bottom be just as predatory as those of the robber baron, but taking property by force has been rendered impossible by the force of commercial events.

 * The prosperity of a people depends upon such facts as the natural wealth of the country in which they live, their social discipline and industrial character, the result of generations, of centuries, it may be, of tradition. In addition it depends upon a special technical capacity for such-and-such a manufacture, a special aptitude for meeting the peculiarities of such-and-such a market, the efficient equipment of elaborately constructed workshops, and the existence of a population trained to given trades.

 * One cannot take up a leading article in even the foremost papers dealing with foreign relations, without finding it assumed that European governments have the instincts of savages and the foresight of cattle-lifters. Are we to assume that the governments of the world, which presumably are directed by men as farsighted as bankers, are permanently to fall below the banker in their conception of enlightened self-interest?

 * The more our commercial system gains in complication, the more does the common prosperity of us all come to depend upon the due performance of all contracts. Commercial development is broadly illustrating one profound truth: that the real basis of social morality is self-interest. If the subject of rivalry between nations is business, the code which has come to dominate business must necessarily come to dominate the conduct of governments.

 * What are the fundamental motives that explain the present rivalry of armaments in Europe, notably the Anglo-German ? Each nation pleads the need for defence; but this implies that someone is likely to attack, and has therefore a presumed interest in so doing. What are the motives which each State thus fears its neighbors may obey? They are based on the universal assumption that a nation, in order to find outlets for expanding population and increasing industry, or simply to ensure the best conditions possible for its people, is necessarily pushed to territorial expansion and the exercise of political force against others.... It is assumed that a nation's relative prosperity is broadly determined by its political power; that nations being competing units, advantage in the last resort goes to the possessor of preponderant military force, the weaker goes to the wall, as in the other forms of the struggle for life. The author challenges this whole doctrine. He attempts to show that it belongs to a stage of development out of which we have passed that the commerce and industry of a people no longer depend upon the expansion of its political frontiers; that a nation's political and economic frontiers do not now necessarily coincide; that military power is socially and economically futile, and can have no relation to the prosperity of the people exercising it; that it is impossible for one nation to seize by force the wealth or trade of another — to enrich itself by subjugating, or imposing its will by force on another; that in short, war, even when victorious, can no longer achieve those aims for which people strive....

 * The fight for ideals can no longer take the form of fight between nations, because the lines of division on moral questions are within the nations themselves and intersect the political frontiers. There is no modern State which is completely Catholic or Protestant, or liberal or autocratic, or aristocratic or democratic, or socialist or individualist; the moral and spiritual struggles of the modern world go on between citizens of the same State in unconscious intellectual cooperation with corresponding groups in other states, not between the public powers of rival States.

 * War has no longer the justification that it makes for the survival of the fittest; it involves the survival of the less fit. The idea that the struggle between nations is a part of the evolutionary law of man's advance involves a profound misreading of the biological analogy. The warlike nations do not inherit the earth; they represent the decaying human element.

 * Are we, in blind obedience to primitive instincts and old prejudices, enslaved by the old catchwords and that curious indolence which makes the revision of old ideas unpleasant, to duplicate indefinitely on the political and economic side a condition from which we have liberated ourselves on the religious side? Are we to continue to struggle, as so many good men struggled in the first dozen centuries of Christendom — spilling oceans of blood, wasting mountains of treasure — to achieve what is at bottom a logical absurdity, to accomplish something which, when accomplished, can avail us nothing, and which, if it could avail us anything, would condemn the nations of the world to never-ending bloodshed and the constant defeat of all those aims which men, in their sober hours, know to be alone worthy of sustained endeavor?

Peace and the Public Mind (1935)

 * Nobel lecture (12 June 1935)

 * It is, of course, merely a truism to say that war, like other social or political evils, is the outcome of the bad management of human society, which is, in its turn, due to certain errors or deficiencies. But our task is to discern the sort of error or deficiency.

 * The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men. Pacifists have sometimes evaded that truth as making too great a concession to Mars, as seeming to imply (which it does not in fact) that in order to abolish war, men must cease to be noble. Base motives are, of course, among those which make up the forces that produce war. Base motives are among those which get great cathedrals built and hospitals constructed-contractors' profit-seeking, the vested interests of doctors and clergy. But Europe has not been covered by cathedrals because contractors wanted to make money, or priests wanted jobs.

 * Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole, of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made, not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.

 * We seem to assume that if only someone could find the cure for our disease, some new plan, we should at once see that it was the cure and apply it. We ask for leaders and leadership. But if the right course, which the leader indicates, is regarded by the multitudes sincerely as the wrong one, they will declare that he is no leader but a misleader. Inevitably in a democracy the leader is he who expresses existing convictions in the most vivid way, who possesses, as someone puts it, "the common mind to an uncommon degree".

 * The convictions of the multitudes — and on certain points like the desirability of organizing the world on a nationalist basis there is overwhelming agreement — are sincere convictions. They are, as we know, sometimes disastrously erroneous; but they are also disastrously honest. The Nationalisms, the Protectionisms, the Mercantilisms and all the other fallacies which rack Europe and create the chaos are sincerely held fallacies. They are, to these multitudes, the truth, and the prophet who denies them shall be stoned.

 * Our daily life is no longer cursed by fear of those pestilences, plagues, black deaths, which used to devastate Europe. The layman has abolished those plagues by using the medical expert's knowledge. The medical expert has said in effect, "There are not many things that we are agreed upon, but at least we are agreed upon this: that though we cannot cure bubonic plague or cholera, we can prevent them, for we know that they are caused by microorganisms transmitted through water and vermin. Keep sewage from your drinking water and vermin from your homes, and you will prevent these plagues." The layman has seen the point, applied appropriate measures, and these dreadful pestilences have disappeared. Now, if our publics these last twenty years could have grasped certain social truths, not inherently more difficult to understand than the microbic theory of disease, a large part at least of the economic and political pestilences which have come upon us in our generation would not have arisen.

 * Our evils are due mainly to the failure to apply to our international relationships knowledge which is of practically universal possession, often self-evident in the facts of daily life and experience.

 * There are many who say in effect that public opinion has little to do with war, that it is explained by the influence of the vested interests who profit by it — armament makers or groups of capitalists. But even when we have admitted that those interests do exert great influence, it only pushes the question further back. Why are the mass of men, millions, powerless in this matter as against a tiny minority, a few dozen or a few score or a few hundred who profit by the general disaster? There are undoubtedly some who say to the millions in effect: "We should like you to go to war because it would expand our profits." But why do the millions obey?

 * Why is it relatively easy for a few armament makers to persuade 'men to go to war, to give their lives; and quite impossible for the much larger group who would benefit by another form of general destruction to persuade men to destroy their property? It is broadly, of course, because the folly of burning down houses is plain; the folly of the policies which lead to war is not so plain.

 * Before war can be fought, a long series of necessary steps, which quite obviously are not and cannot be enforced steps, must be taken by the mass of men. Naval and military budgets must be voted in parliaments and congresses, not just once or twice in a generation but year after year; not secretly, but accompanied by long and public discussion, the budgets being supported by members of parliament, or deputies or congressmen who are still in many states continuously reelected in free and secret franchises, often by great majorities.

 * To shut our eyes to the part that John Smith plays in the perpetuation of unworkable policies, in building up the forces of which he becomes the victim, is to perpetuate his victimization. The only means by which he can be liberated from the evil power of organized minorities is by making him aware of the nature of the impulses and motives to which the exploiters so successfully appeal. If such phenomena as nationalism, for instance, can assume forms that are gravely dangerous, it is because the nationalist appeal finds response in deep human impulses, instincts, in psychological facts which we must face.

 * One speaks of dictators ruling by "force". But what has enabled dictatorial governments to possess force? The only means by which a man can become a dictator is by getting at the public mind. The politician does not become dictator by the strength of his own muscles. He must persuade others, millions of others, to use their muscles in a certain way. The German National Socialists began as a party of ten persons. And it would have remained a party of ten persons had not its promoters been able to persuade — not force — others. Ten persons had no force as against the power of the German nation. The potential power of that party of ten persons consisted simply in its potential power to reach the public mind. Without that popular appeal it could never have come into being. And if, and when, it loses that popular appeal, it will cease to be.

 * The parties, Fascist, or other, which bring about dictatorship want dictatorship. But John Smith who insists on certain policies which produce war does not want war. The first is the result of conscious intention duly carried into effect. The second is the result of an intention which miscarries, miscarries because of certain current errors and fallacies.

 * As an Englishman, particularly as an Englishman standing upon foreign soil, I am, of course, prepared to argue that every war we have ever fought was a purely defensive war. But I am obliged to take cognizance of the quite simple historical fact that for about one thousand years, since the time indeed when Norwegians ravaged our coasts and a certain Scandinavian landed at Hastings in 1066, every war we have fought happens to have been fought in other people's countries. Now if defense means merely keeping burglars out of the house, what were we doing on all those occasions in other people's houses? Our history in this respect is not peculiar. The United States is proud of her remoteness from the old world, her freedom from entanglement in its quarrels, her isolation. Yet in her relatively very short history as an independent state she has fought at least six foreign wars while her troops have landed on foreign soil on nearly a hundred occasions. Not one of those wars was for the purpose of defending American soil.

 * Now, please don't misunderstand me. When I point out that all our wars for a thousand years have been fought in other people's countries, I do not mean that any of these wars was necessarily aggressive. They may well have been, everyone of them, defensive. But plainly they were not defensive of soil, territory. Of what then were they defensive? They were defensive of the nation's interests, rights; interests which may well collide with the interests of other nations in any part of the world ... Nations do so differ as to what their respective rights are and differ sincerely. And often the question, which of the two is right, is extremely difficult, as anyone who has attempted to disentangle rival territorial claims in the Balkans or elsewhere knows only too well.

 * One great state says to others, as each in effect has been saying during the ten years of armament debate: "It is true that we ask for considerable power. Perhaps, all things considered, greater power than you. But it need not disturb you in the least, for we give you our most positive assurance that that power will be used purely for defense. And by defense we mean this: that when we get into a dispute with you as to our respective rights, when, that is, the question is whether you are right or we are right, what we mean by defense is that we shall always be in a position to be sole judge of the question. And so much stronger than you, that you will have to accept our verdict without any possibility of appeal. Could anything be fairer?"

 * We use power, of course, in the international fields in a way which is the exact contrary to the way in which we use it within the state. In the international field, force is the instrument of the rival litigants, each attempting to impose his judgment upon the other. Within the state, force is the instrument of the community, the law, primarily used to prevent either of the litigants imposing by force his view upon the other. The normal purpose of police — to prevent the litigant taking the law into his own hands, being his own judge — is the precise contrary of the normal purpose in the past of armies and navies, which has been to enable the litigant to be his own judge of his own rights when in conflict about them with another.

 * Within the state we have made defense of the individual the obligation of the whole community, and by that fact have established such preponderance of power on the side of the law that it could never be good business to challenge it. And that fact has, in large measure, swept highwaymen from the roads and pirates from the seas.

 * So long as an individual, whether person or state, has only his own arms to depend upon in order to defend his rights by arms, then he must be stronger than anyone likely to challenge those rights. Which means that that other is deprived of similar defense. Within the frontiers man long ago made the discovery that the only way out of that dilemma is for the community, by putting its combined power behind a protective law, to assume the defense of the individual. Defense must be a communal, a collective function, or it cannot exist effectively at all.

 * The conception that we can only protect ourselves if we are prepared to protect others surely ought to belong to the nursery stage of social education. But such things as the mechanism of security through law, the place of force in society, are things not, it would seem, included usually in the common education of our peoples.

 * The economic difficulty of the modern world is not shortage of materials but the organization of their exchange and distribution; distress arises, not from scarcity but from dislocation and maladjustment.

 * I doubt whether the public has fully grasped the change which has come over the nature of modern wealth. If the nature of that change were grasped by our publics, we should be much nearer to accepting the international organizations necessary for the defense of welfare and of civilization than we are. As it is, we are in danger of being diverted to the discussion of schemes for a vast rearrangement of frontiers in defiance of national feeling — for the boundaries of the national and the economic unit do not conveniently coincide — before which the difficulties of a Disarmament Conference would pale into insignificance.

 * 'In the modern world, material is only wealth if you can get rid of it. The British miner cannot eat his coal, nor clothe his children with it, nor build his house with it. If coal is to mean for the British miner food and shelter and clothing, he must get rid of it. Get rid of it, that is, to someone who has money, sell it. But how is that someone to get money? He can only get it by one means: By getting rid of his material to someone who has money, who can only get money by getting rid of his'' material — round the world.

 * The fact that men are naturally quarrelsome is presumed to be an argument against such institutions as the League. But it is precisely the fact of the natural pugnacity of man that makes such institutions necessary. If men were naturally and easily capable of being their own judges, always able to see the other's case, never got into panics, never lost their heads, never lost their tempers and called it patriotism — why, then we should not want a League. But neither should we want in that case most of our national apparatus of government either — parliaments, congresses, courts, police, ten commandments. These are all means by which we deal with the unruly element in human nature.

 * I would not hesitate to say that nine out of ten of the critics of the peace movement get the argument turned upside down. "You cannot change human nature" has become a sort of incantation with those critics. Perhaps you cannot "change human nature" — I don't indeed know what the phrase means. But you can certainly change human behavior, which is what matters, as the whole panorama of history shows.

 * Not more knowledge but better use of the knowledge which we now have, is perhaps the main educational need and the main educational problem which confronts us.

 * Man's greatest advances these last few generations have been made by the application of human intelligence to the management of matter. Now we are confronted by a more difficult problem, the application of intelligence to the management of human relations. Unless we can advance in that field also, the very instruments that man's intelligence has created may be the instruments of his destruction.

 * The obstacles to peace are not obstacles in matter, in inanimate nature, in the mountains which we pierce, in the seas across which we fly. The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men. In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial, true. That is why we succeed in dealing with it. But about the things we care for — which are ourselves, our desires and lusts, our patriotisms and hates — we find a harder test of thinking straight and truly. Yet there is the greater need. Only by intellectual rectitude and in that field shall we be saved. There is no refuge but in truth, in human intelligence, in the unconquerable mind of man.

Quotes about Angell

 * Angell argued that in a modern economy no economic benefit could be generated even by successful wars of conquest... Angell’s argument showed, beyond reasonable doubt, that war and territorial expansion are not, in general sensible policies. His views have often been derided on the basis that they were falsified by the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, which was pursued to the bitter end even though it destroyed the global market economy that had formed the backdrop to his analysis. But in reality the outcome proved him right. Of course, Germany, the power most influenced by the arguments of Clausewitz and his successors, reaped nothing but grief from the war. But the attempts of the victorious allies to exact reparations, extend their colonial influence and so on were also entirely futile, exactly as Angell had predicted.
 * John Quiggin (28 July 2004)

The Nobel Presentation Speech

 * Speech by Christian Lous Lange (10 December 1934)

 * In 1909, he published a little book of some hundred pages, Europe's Optical Illusion, and he awoke one morning to find himself famous.

 * What is the "Great Illusion" which Norman Angell wishes to explode? In few — and therefore insufficient — words, it is this: war is a quite inadequate method for solving international disputes; war does not carry any advantage, not even to the victors, least of all any economic advantage.

 * The Great Illusion in its turn created certain illusions in those who read the book superficially (or who only heard about it). Because Norman Angell had proved war to be foolish, to be a bad business proposition, many believed that he had said there would be no more war in Europe. Against this misinterpretation Norman Angell at once protested with the greatest heat. He asked: "Why then do I pursue my fight against war?" Indeed, why should pacifists continue their frequently thankless and unpopular work if they believe that war will never occur any more? Rational people do not try to break down an open door.

 * The final chapter of The Great Illusion presents a convincing plea for a change in foreign policy from that of a war policy to one of international cooperation and peace. If this is not made, war, he says, will be inevitable. The fact that we are living in a world of international interdependence makes it imperative that we organize the international community of nations accordingly, basing the community on the common interests which bind nations together, relinquishing the principle of isolated national defence, providing collective security through common effort by erecting an international authority which can replace the prevailing international anarchy.

 * Norman Angell speaks to the intellect. He is cool and clear. He has a profound belief in reason and in rationalism. He is convinced that at long last reason will prevail when we succeed in sweeping away the mists of illusion and intellectual error.

 * He has a profound and warm belief in what he calls in one of his books "the potential rationalism of mankind". Let us hope that his optimism may be vindicated.

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Birds of Prey (comic)

Birds of Prey is a DC Comics comic book that features the adventures of the superheroine Oracle and her group of superheroines. The group is initially based in Gotham City and later operates in Metropolis and then relocates once more to "Platinum Flats", California, a new locale introduced in Birds of Prey in 2008.

Issue 1, "One Man's Hell", 1996, Written by Chuck Dixon

 * Black Canary: So why me?
 * Oracle: Your martial arts rep. Your resilience.  And the fact that Devine is a babe hound and you're a ladies' man's kind of lady.
 * Black Canary: That's it?
 * Oracle: Well, I hear things.  Hope I'm not out of line if I say your life lacks direction right now.
 * Black Canary: A real understatement.
 *
 * [Black Canary pulls new costume out of the closet]
 * Black Canary: You didn't get this out of a catalog.
 * Oracle: I thought it was time to get out of the fishnets and hot pants. Your profile needs work as well as your life.
 * Black Canary: I'll try not to take that the wrong way.
 *
 * Lynx: You move as one trained in the opening flower discipline, but I cannot place your kick style
 * Black Canary: I'll go a little slower next time so you can keep up, okay?

Issue 1, "When Revenge Delights", 9/1996, Written by Chuck Dixon

 * Black Canary: I want to look in his eyes while I'm kicking his a (word partially obscured by Oracle's speech balloon)
 * Oracle: That's not phsyically possible, is it?
 * Black Canary: It will be when I'm done, Oracle.
 *
 * Oracle: Roderick Tower is state of the art for surveillance -- ninety percent chance that Braun already knows you're there.
 * Black Canary: The flippin' obvious for two hundred dollars, Alex.

Issue 3, "The Man That Got Away", 11/1996, Written by Chuck Dixon

 * [Oracle calls Catwoman and Huntress, who are following the captured Black Canary.]
 * Catwoman: You'd better have something for us, Oracle
 * Oracle: Oh?
 * Catwoman: Listen up, Geek-girl. It's way past our respective bedtimes.  We missed dinner. And we haven't washed our hair.  And we can't do anything about it because we all refuse to take off our masks.
 * Oracle: Hee hee, hee hee--
 * Catwoman: Are you giggling?
 * Oracle: No -- snort -- of coure not. I just -- hee hee! -- I just always thought you licked yourself clean!

Issue 1, "Wolves", 1997, Written by Chuck Dixon

 * Craig Windrow: You never made coffee this good when we were married, Dinah.
 * Black Canary: You spend a lot of time in Seattle, you get good at coffee. It's the law.

Issue 1, 1/1999, "Long Time Gone", Written by Chuck Dixon

 * [Black Canary – who has little proficiency, and even less interest, in computers – receives a computer from Oracle so the two can work better together]
 * Black Canary: No... NO! Take it away! It's too horrible!
 * Oracle: It's just a computer, Dinah.
 * Black Canary: I don't want one, Oracle.
 * Oracle: You have to get over your technophobia eventually.
 * Black Canary: No. I don't.
 *
 * [Later, after Oracle tells Black Canary her identity must remain a secret – although Oracle can see Dinah's every move through the computer – Dinah places a towel over the computer screen.]
 * Oracle: Dinah!
 * Black Canary: See? I am getting the hang of this.
 *
 * [Oracle warns Black Canary that Johnny Pamerjanian – a/k/a Johnny Pajamas – is a dangerous man with millions in drug money]
 * Black Canary: I'll go ashore tonight and take you along, my little candid camera. If this Pajamas guy has a taste for blondes we're in solid.
 * Oracle: This isn't a "bait" job, Dinah.
 * Black Canary: Oracle, honey, every job's a bait job.

Issue 10, 10/1999, "The Wrong Guy", Written by Chuck Dixon

 * [Black Canary realizes that the Guy Gardner she kissed was, instead, an alien clone]
 * Black Canary: I kissed an alien clone! EW!

Issue 59, 11/2003, "Of Like Minds, Chapter 4", Written by Gail Simone

 * [Black Canary sees the Huntress' new tummy-baring costume and asks how she did it]
 * Huntress: 700 sit ups a day.

Issue 62, 2/2004, "Sensei and Student", Written by Gail Simone

 * [Lady Shiva and Black Canary have left their sensei of on his deathbed. Canary has just stopped crying.]
 * Black Canary: Still, it was good of you to come
 * Lady Shiva: I didn't come to pay my respects. I keep a list of the twenty-five greatest fighters. If a name on that list dies, not by my hand, I find it wise to verify that passing.
 * Black Canary: Uh, huh. I think you need to learn the simple skill of admitting this hurts.  Where am I on that list, by the way?
 * Lady Shiva: I'm not sure I should tell you. I would hate to see you get all misty-eyed again.

Issue 63, 3/2004, "Sensei and Student Part Two - Pride and Poison", Written by Gail Simone

 * [Black Canary is fighting Cheshire in a swimming pool. Canary is wearing black leather, and Cheshire a skimpy, soaked teddy.]
 * Black Canary: If anyone's filming this, I'll be downloaded for the rest of eternity.

Issue 64, 4/2004, "Sensei and Student Part Three - Mercy and Murder", Written by Gail Simone

 * [Cheshire has just dropped a vomit-inducing poisonous nail into Black Canary's dim sum.]
 * Black Canary: What did you do to me, you twisted little brat? Tell me, or I'm going to aim my next noxious explosion at you.

Issue 68, 8/2004, "One Day, Well-Chosen", Written by Gail Simone

 * [Huntress has a reluctant date with Josh, a car rental agent who provided her information on the Gotham mob.]
 * Huntress: Every word you say is like a pitchfork to my dignity.

Issue 70, 9/2004, "Between Dark and Dawn Part Two - Huntress/Prey", Written by Gail Simone

 * [Huntress is on a spying mission at a cult's headquarters]
 * Huntress: Okay, I'm at the only building I can find with a padlock.
 * Oracle: Just get a rock and smash it.
 * Huntress How come with Canary, you give all the good cyber juju, and with ME, it's all, "Get a rock and smash it"?
 *
 * [Huntress has been injured and is being tended to by Brusaw, leader of the cult, who tries to convert her]
 * Brusaw: If you would only let our Lord explain it...
 * Huntress: Mister, I may not be quite the Catholic my parents hoped for, but I know for a fact whatever you're talking to isn't GOD.

Issue 72, 10/2004, "Between Dark and Dawn Part Two - Huntress/Prey", Written by Gail Simone

 * [Huntress and Vixen are being attacked by weapon-wielding brainwashed teenagers at the site of the cult]
 * Vixen: Something's strange here.
 * Huntress: Something new-strange, or just murderous-teen-cult strange?
 * Vixen: New, Huntress. Under the ground. The earthworms...They're agitated.
 * Huntress: I love it when you talk dirty.

Issue 94, 7/2006, "Progeny Part Three - Stolen Inferno", Written by Gail Simone

 * [Gypsy stops Bethany, the Crime Doctor's daughter from crying.]
 * Shiva: To stop a daughter's tears...this is a formidable skill.
 * Huntress: Speaking from experience, Shiva?
 * Shiva: A little, perhaps. Of course, my daughter actually attempted to kill me and hang me on a hook.
 * Huntress: I'm sorry to hear that.
 * Shiva: Sorry? It just proves that she's an achiever.

Issue 106, 7/2007, "Whitewater Part Three - Storm Front", Written by Gail Simone

 * ''[Knockout is getting ready to fight Big Barda]
 * Knockout: Ah. Better than sex. And almost as brutal.

Issue 115, 4/2008, "Underneath The Skin", Written by Sean McKeever

 * [Black Alice has talked about her heavy anti-depressive medications.]
 * Misfit: In other words, Emo girl is worthless.
 * Black Alice: I'm not Emo. I'm Goth.
 * Misfit: Same thing. Even doped up on happy juice you're a big whiner.

Huntress

 * "Any man can transform himself into something else, something beyond reason..beyond supermen.- Michael Setzer
 * "You want justice served? You want vengeance taken? You want honor restored? Then do it yourself. That's omertà. When blood cries for blood, you answer the call. And you answer it alone." - Batman: Huntress: Cry for Blood

 * (to Nightwing) "I don't want your help. I don't need your help. Now, get out of my home." - Batman: Huntress: Cry for Blood

 * "There were so many flowers. My mother had been shot in the chest. Her casket was open. But my father and my brother, they'd been shot in the face, and there was no way the mortician could repair that damage. I was eight years old and my family was dead and all I thought was that people loved us. It wasn't grief that brought the flowers. It was joy." - Batman: Huntress: Cry for Blood

 * "Actually - I play a little rough for Batman's taste." - Nightwing/Huntress

 * "Maybe I have something to prove--to him or myself or both. Or maybe I care because I've been alone most of my life. Ever since I was a child. Alone in every kind of darkness. Hunting evil or just waiting for the dawn. It must be some kind of comfort to have a partner. Someone to trust at your back. So maybe when I see him with Robin I want to see me. He's like me--a loner--yet he and his partner somehow make a perfect team." - ''Batman 80 Page Giant #1
 * "If there's a lesson tonight, it's that there's no room for chance in this "business." Lives depend on my being certain. Reason. Intellect. Skill. Nothing else must matter." - ''Batman 80 Page Giant #2
 * (To a vision of Batman) "It's...It's beautiful. Can I keep it? I won't lose it. Don't go. I want to show you what I can do. I'll make you proud. Say Something!" - Gotham Knights #38

 * (To Batman) "So, nothing condescending to say about my new costume? You weren't exactly focused the last time you saw it. You're welcome by the way." - ''Gotham Knights #40
 * (To an unconscious Batman) "[darn] you. Not going down. Not in front of you." - ''Batman: Hush
 * (Batman on Huntress) "Huntress. After all we've been through she still fights for my life. So much rage. Not sure I ever saw it...before. She's better than she knows but wastes too much energy proving it. So much like I when I started out. No wonder the others haven't accepted her..." - Batman: Hush

 * "I could stop their screaming with one bolt. Wouldn't stop a ... thing. Seven days since Gotham has been left to rot like Gomorrah. We're better than that. I'm sure of it. Unfortunately, I've seen nothing to so far to support that faith." - ''Batman No Man's Land #0
 * "I hate losing. I hate running away. I don't know what else to do. They don't fear me. Not like they fear him. Where is the Batman? He's all over me when I screw up when I don't play by his rules. "My City!" he says, never let's me forget it. So why isn't he putting the fear of... Are they roasting a bat?" - ''Batman No Man's Land #0
 * (On her first night as Batgirl) "Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. I didn't need to raise a fist. I didn't need to say a word. They took one look at me, one look at my shadow and they ran. No. Not my shadow. No I get it and I like it." - Batman No Man's Land #0

 * I should put this spike in his throat...he'd do it to me. He'd kill me and not blink. Kill him and not blink. Why not? In No Man's Land why...not? (sees Batsymbol reflected on the glass drops knife and lets thug go). ''Batman No Man's Land #0

 * "I'm not even that fond of real cops. But wannabe cops... now they just tick me right off." - Birds of Prey #69

 * "You guys sure you want to fire your sidearms around gas pumps? Just asking." - Birds of Prey #69

 * "I was brought here at gunpoint and in cuffs, Mr. Brusaw. I don't think a hug is entirely the correct response here." - Birds of Prey #69

 * "You. You ratted me out to Brushaw's fake police officers. Now was that polite?" - Birds of Prey #69

 * (upon finding Black Canary bound by tree branches) "This might take a while. I forgot my chainsaw." - Birds of Prey #76

 * (after shooting a crossbow bolt through a crooked cop's hand, Black Canary and John are staring at her) "What? He'll be fine. We're in a hospital." - Birds of Prey #80

 * Nightwing: You want to know a secret? Everyone but me thinks you're nuts, there's a secret!
 * Huntress: That's hardly a secret. - Nightwing/Huntress

 * Black Canary: Hey, how'd you know about Cheetah's healing factor?
 * Huntress: (shooting Cheetah) Healing what now? - Birds of Prey #97

 * Tom: I don't talk to women who wear make-up, anyway. It's unclean. So just shut up.
 * Huntress: Someone hasn't had a date in a while...
 * Tom: Shut up! - Birds of Prey #69

 * Talia: And Who are you? The Detective's consort? His woman?
 * Huntress: Do I sense some jealousy there, Babe?
 * Talia: You... - Robin #33

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User:Spsoni

Sury Prakash Soni is also well know as Surya Soni

Sury Prakash Soni is resident of Bhilwara, Rajasthan, India.

Sury Prakash Soni is Computer Engineer by Profession.

Sury Prakash Soni is currently doing Master of Computer Science from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

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Talk:Sky High (2005 film)

The material here thus far has been cut and pasted from the IMDB site (or just corresponds to the IMDB material to an uncanny degree, including a number of misquotes). - RPickman 07:39, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

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Corey Haim

Corey Ian Haim (December 23, 1971 – March 10, 2010) was a Canadian actor, best known for a 1980s Hollywood career as a teen idol.

Quotes

 * I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.
 * Of his addiction problems.

 * Stuff happens when you are a kid, it scars you inside for life.
 * Of being abused at the age of 14.

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The War of the Worlds (1953 film)

The War of the Worlds is a 1953 science-fiction film about a small town in California that is attacked by Martians.
 * Directed by Byron Haskin. Written by Barré Lyndon, based on the novel by H. G. Wells.

The original invasion! (taglines)

Opening sequence

 * In the First World War, and for the first time in the history of man, nations combined to fight against nations using the crude weapons of those days. The Second World War involved every continent on the globe, and men turned to science for new devices of warfare, which reached an unparalleled peak in their capacity for destruction. And now, fought with the terrible weapons of super-science, menacing all mankind and every creature on Earth, comes...The War of the Worlds!

Narrator

 * [opening lines] No one would have believed, in the middle of the 20th century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's. Yet, across the gulf of space on the planet Mars, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our Earth with envious eyes, slowly and surely drawing their plans against us. Mars is more than 140 million miles from the sun, and for centuries it has been in the last stages of exhaustion. At night, temperatures drop far below zero even at its equator. The inhabitants of this dying planet looked across space with instruments and intelligences of which we have scarcely dreamed, searching for another world to which they could migrate. They could not go to Pluto, outermost of all the planets, so cold that its atmosphere lies frozen on its surface. They couldn't go to Neptune or Uranus, twin worlds in eternal night and perpetual cold, both surrounded by an unbreathable atmosphere of methane gas and ammonia vapor. The Martians considered Saturn, an attractive world with its many moons and beautiful rings of cosmic dust, but its temperature is close to 270 degrees below zero, and ice lies 15,000 miles deep on its surface. Their nearest world was giant Jupiter, where there are titanic cliffs of lava and ice with hydrogen flaming at the tops, where the atmospheric pressure is terrible - thousands of pounds to the square inch. They couldn't go there. Nor could they go to Mercury, nearest planet to the sun; it has no air, and the temperature at its equator is that of molten lead. Of all the worlds that the intelligences on Mars could see and study, only our own warm Earth was green with vegetation, bright with water, and possessed a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility. It did not occur to mankind that a swift fate might be hanging over us, or that from the blackness of outer space we were being scrutinized and studied – until the time of our nearest approach to the orbit of Mars during a pleasant summer season.
 * The Martians had calculated their descent upon our Earth with amazing perfection and subtlety. As more of their cylinders came from the mysterious depths of space, their war machines, awesome in their power and complexity, created a wave of fear which swept into all corners of the world. In every country, government officials met in desperate conclave, seeking ways to coordinate their defenses with those of other nations. The government of India, driven from New Delhi, met in a railroad coach, while massive Hindu populations streamed for the imagined safety of the faraway Himalayas. The redoubtable Finnish and Turkish armies, Chinese battalions and Bolivians worked and fought furiously. Every effort against the tremendous power of their other-world antagonists ended in the same frantic rout. As the Martians burned fields and forests, and great cities fell before them, huge populations were driven from their homes. The stream of flight rose swiftly to a torrent. It became a giant stampede without order and without goal. It was the beginning of the rout of civilization, of the massacre of humanity. A great silence fell over half of Europe, as all communication was disrupted. When the last wire photo out of Paris reached the French Cabinet, exiled in Strausberg, they hit upon the idea of using super-speed jets as couriers. Stripped of armament and loaded with extra fuel, these planes maintained connections with the Scandinavian countries, North Africa, the United States and especially with England. It was plain the Martians appreciated the strategic significance of the British Isles. The people of Britain met the invaders magnificently, but it was unavailing. As the Martians swept northward toward London, the British Cabinet stayed in session, coordinating every item of information that could be gathered, passing it on to the United Nations in New York. From there, the news was forwarded to Washington. Because here was the only remaining unassailed strategic point.
 * [last lines] The Martians had no resistance to the bacteria in our atmosphere to which we have long since become immune. Once they had breathed our air, germs which no longer affect us began to kill them. The end came swiftly. All over the world, their machines began to stop and fall. After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things which God, in His wisdom, had put upon this Earth.

Dr. Clayton Forrester

 * Those shells can't get through to them. They've put up some sort of electromagnetic covering, a protective blister.
 * We know now we can't beat their machines. We've got to beat them.

General Mann

 * They'll probably move at dawn.
 * According to intelligence from other nations, they're working toward some kind of plan. Now, what it may be isn't clear yet, simply because once they begin to move, no more news comes out of that area.
 * Guns, tanks, bombs - they're like toys against them!

Other

 * Col. Heffner: [last words before being disintegrated.] Everybody out of here! Everybody out! The Air Force will take care of these babies now! Dr. Forrester, get out of here! Everybody out of here! Everybody out—!

Dialogue

 * [Three local men approach the Martian spaceship, only to be distintegrated after offering greetings.]
 * Salvatore: We're friends, yeah?
 * Wash Perry: Hey, there! Open up!
 * Salvatore: How are they going to understand us?
 * Ogilvy: We're talking in sign language.
 * Wash Perry: They'll understand us, all right.
 * Salvatore: Sure. Sure. Everybody understands when you wave the white flag and you want to be friends.
 * Wash Perry: Hey, there! Open up!
 * Ogilvy: Come on out! We're friends.
 * Salvatore: That's right. We welcome you. We're friends, yeah?

 * Sheriff Bogany: What is that gizmo?
 * Forrester: I think that "gizmo" is a machine from another planet.
 * Bogany: Better get word to the authorities. Look!
 * [They see the second cylinder fall.]
 * Forrester: Sheriff, you'd better get word to the military. You're gonna need them out here.

 * [Martian ships disintegrate the human military.]
 * General Mann: That skeleton beam must be what they used to wipe out the French cities!
 * Forrester: It neutralizes mesons somehow! They're the atomic glue holding matter together! Cut across their lines of magnetic force, and any object will simply cease to exist! Take my word for it, General, this type of defense is useless against that kind of power! You'd better let Washington know...fast!

 * Sylvia: They seem to murder anything that moves.
 * Forrester: If they're mortal, they must have mortal weaknesses. They will be stopped, somehow.

 * Forrester: Did that mob grab the trucks ahead of me? There were a lot of Pacific Tech people with those trucks! Did you see them?
 * Man with briefcase: I don't know anything about other trucks! There's been fighting on all the streets!
 * Forrester: The school bus; the girl was driving. Did they get that, too?
 * Man with briefcase: If they saw it, they took it; they'll grab anything on wheels! You can't buy a ride for love or money!!

Taglines

 * Amazing! Terrifying! The most savage spectacle of all time!
 * A mighty panorama of earth-shaking fury!
 * They came to CONQUER the EARTH!
 * Mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury as an army from Mars invades!
 * The original invasion!

Cast

 * Gene Barry - Dr. Clayton Forrester
 * Ann Robinson - Sylvia van Buren
 * Les Tremayne - General Mann
 * Bob Cornthwaite - Dr. Pryor
 * Sandro Giglio - Dr. Bilderbeck
 * Lewis Martin - Pastor Dr. Matthew Collins
 * Housely Stevenson Jr. - General Mann's aide
 * Paul Frees - Radio reporter
 * Bill Phipps - Wash Perry
 * Sir Cedric Hardwicke - Narrator
 * Bill Phipps - Wash Perry
 * Vernon Rich - Colonel Ralph Heffner
 * Henry Brandon - Cop at crash
 * Jack Kruschen - Salvatore

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Juwanna Mann

Juwanna Mann is a film about star basketball player Jamal Jeffries who is suspended indefinitely for his on-and-off-court shenanigans and must pose as a woman to get his career back.

Jamal Jeffries

 * [after being pulled over] Maybe I can sedyyyyyuce my way out of a ticket...oh shit, it is a white man! OK, Juwanna, you can still pull this off.

Lorne Daniels

 * [after seeing Jamal in the team mascot's costume] A third career.....Where do u find the time?

Tina Parker

 * The only reason why I stayed with your lyin', cheatin' ass is because you were rich and famous.

Magda

 * [while being interviewed] In my country, penis okay; My mother have penis, and my sister.

Coach Rivers

 * Do you see that banner up there? It says the "Charlotte Banshees", not the "Charlotte Juwannas"!

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Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins (June 24, 1915 - November 30, 1990) was an Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of California and a prominent world federalist leader. He became executive editor (and then editor-in-chief) of the Saturday Review of Literature; under his leadership, circulation increased from 20,000 to 650,000. Cousins later served as President of the World Federalist Association.

Quotes

 * War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
 * Who Speaks for Man? (1953), p. 318.

 * A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas — a place where history comes to life.
 * American Library Association Bulletin (Oct 1954).

 * What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.
 * Quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter.

 * What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
 * Reader’s Digest (September 1980).

 * There is a tendency to mistake data for wisdom, just as there has always been a tendency to confuse logic with values, intelligence with insight. Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead. Facts are terrible things if left sprawling and unattended. They are too easily regarded as evaluated certainties rather than as the rawest of raw materials crying to be processed into the texture of logic. It requires a very unusual mind, Whitehead said, to undertake the analysis of a fact. The computer can provide a correct number, but it may be an irrelevant number until judgment is pronounced.
 * "Freedom as Teacher" in Human Options : An Autobiographical Notebook (1981).

 * Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.
 * The Pathology of Power (1987), pg. 207).

 * Hope, faith, love and a strong will to live offer no promise of immortality, only proof of our uniqueness ans human beings and the opportunity to experience full growth even under the grimmest circumstances. Far more real than the ticking of time is the way we open up the minutes and invest them with meaning. Death is not the ultimate tragedy in life. The ultimate tragedy is to die without discovering the possibilities of full growth.
 * Quoted in Good Housekeeping (November 1989), p. 92.

 * Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.
 * Quoted in History of Sikh Struggles (1989) by Gurmit Singh, p. 189.

Saturday Review

 * We will not have peace by afterthought.
 * Editorial (1956) on importance of preservation rather than breaches of world peace.

 * If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
 * Editorial (1956) on importance of preservation rather than breaches of world peace.

 * The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
 * Editorial (1971).

 * A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
 * 15 April 1978.

 * Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
 * 15 April 1978.

 * History is a vast early warning system.
 * 28 August 1973, Page 12.

 * Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
 * 15 April 1978.

 * The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
 * 15 April 1978.

Anatomy of an Illness (1979)

 * If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

 * The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources — spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

 * Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

 * [The recovery] began, I said, when I decided that some experts don't really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being. And I said I hoped they would be careful about what they said to others; they might be believed and that could be the beginning of the end.

Human Options (1981)

 * Cynicism is intellectual treason.

 * Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

 * Inevitably, an individual is measured by his or her largest concerns.

 * The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

 * Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations..

 * Most men think they are immortal--until they get a cold, when they think they are going to die within the hour..

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Dan Brown

Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author of thriller fiction, featuring recurring elements of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories.
 * See also: Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and The Lost Symbol.

Quotes

 * Interestingly, if you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as absolute historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell. Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious — that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
 * Interview at Brown's official site

 * Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
 * Interview at Brown's official site

 * If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.
 * Author FAQ at Brown's official site

 * I never imagined so many people would be enjoying it this much. I wrote this book essentially as a group of fictional characters exploring ideas that I found personally intriguing.
 * "Decoding the Da Vinci Code author" BBC (7 April 2006)

 * Secrets interest us all, I think.
 * "Decoding the Da Vinci Code author" BBC (7 April 2006)

 * Google is not a synonym for research.
 * The Lost Symbol: (Robert Langdon Book 3), 2009, p. 98

 * I am not an atheist — I think I'm happily confused and a work in progress; I'm sort of more agnostic. I do think that science has become the lens through which we see the world, more and more.
 * "Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown Says He Has Abandoned Christianity, but Is Not an Atheist" The Christian Post (24 Oct 2017)

Quotes about Dan Brown

 * Alphabetized by author

 * Dan Brown has to be one of the best, smartest, and most accomplished writers in the country. The Da Vinci Code is many notches above the intelligent thriller; this is pure genius.
 * Nelson DeMille in a promotional blurb at Doubleday

 * The world of publishing is in crisis. It's no coincidence that the worst published writer in the world today is also one of the world's most successful writers... Dan Brown. Now Dan Brown is not a good writer, The Da Vinci Code is not literature. Dan Brown writes sentences like "The famous man looked at the red cup." …and it's only to be hoped that Dan Brown never gets a job where he's required to break bad news. "Doctor is he going to be alright?" "The seventy five year old man died a painful death on the large green table... it was sad".
 * Stewart Lee in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle (2009)

 * Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code … a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name. … Even Dan Brown must live. Preferably not write, but live.
 * Salman Rushdie interview The Lawrence Journal-World (7 October 2005)

 * Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly addictive one. His publisher has described it as 'a thriller for people who don't like thrillers'. One newspaper put it thus: 'It is terribly written, its characters are cardboard cutouts, the dialogue is excruciating in places and, a bit like a computer manual, everything is overstated and repeated — but it is impossible to put the bloody thing down.'
 * David Smith in "Veni vidi da Vinci" in The Observer (12 December 2004)

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Template:QuickQuote

A simple template to allow for the consistent, fast and easy addition of new quotes into the Wikiquote collection.

Usage

 * This is the actual words and content of the quote being entered.
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Make it better
Don't you think its quicker to just type "" and hit return 2 times rather than typing in the entire word "quickquote" + all those brackets? Wont it be better to shrten quickquote to qq or something? --Weedrat 05:45, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

 * The brackets and other syntax are what make it possible to group the content (the quotes and the source/context infomation) and separate it from the style (which changes over time, as Wikiquote developes). Lucanos's had was by parameterizing the quote and source material, we could make global style changes at any time in the future simply by updating this one template instead of hundreds of thousands of quotes in 10,000 articles. The two biggest problems are (A) performance issues by having so much use of templates; and (B) the complexity of the many kinds of styles needed to accomodate all the varying genres of quotes. It's not a bad start to a good idea. I suspect we will have to seriously consider something like this in the future. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:59, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I changed the format, since it was based on our older practice. Today we don't employ any blacket ("") nor italize the quote, and use a ballet for remark as far as I know. But personally I think it should be obsolated or at least used as only substitution, considering server load; too many inclusion is not good, and I am not sure if we really need it. --Aphaia 00:57, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

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Jeff Goldblum

Jeffrey Lynn "Jeff" Goldblum (born October 22, 1952) is an American actor. His career began in the mid-1970s, and he has appeared in major box-office successes including The Fly (1986), Jurassic Park (1993), Independence Day (1996) and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). He starred as Detective Zach Nichols for the eighth and ninth seasons of the USA Network's crime drama series Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011).

Quotes

 * There is a thin line between passion and gas.
 * On Late Night with Conan O'Brien, 2005; Quoted in Energy and climate change: creating a sustainable future by David A. Coley (2008), page 211.

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Eddie Segoura article
Editors using IP addresses 205.188.117.13 and 69.112.54.11 (at least one presumably being Wikipedia user EddieSegoura) created or edited a quote article titled Eddie Segoura. It was quickly nominated for deletion as having a non-notable subject. Please note that this is not a criticism of quoteworthiness. Wikiquote's Main Page introduction clearly states that it is a compendium of quotes from notable people and creative works, like any significant quotation publication (e.g., Bartlett's, Oxford), just as Wikipedia is an encyclopedia for notable topics. We no more accept personal quotation articles from WQ editors than WP accepts articles about WP editors. Like Wikipedia, we do allow editors to place such information on their user pages; in fact, we encourage folks to add their own (or their friends' or any favorite) quotes to there. Please read FAQ for more information. Also, please note that, like Wikipedia, we do not allow removal of VFD tags after nomination until the vote is closed. Thank you for your cooperation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:55, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

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Editors using IP addresses 205.188.117.13 and 69.112.54.11 (at least one presumably being Wikipedia user EddieSegoura) created or edited a quote article titled Eddie Segoura. It was quickly nominated for deletion as having a non-notable subject. Please note that this is not a criticism of quoteworthiness. Wikiquote's Main Page introduction clearly states that it is a compendium of quotes from notable people and creative works, like any significant quotation publication (e.g., Bartlett's, Oxford), just as Wikipedia is an encyclopedia for notable topics. We no more accept personal quotation articles from WQ editors than WP accepts articles about WP editors. Like Wikipedia, we do allow editors to place such information on their user pages; in fact, we encourage folks to add their own (or their friends' or any favorite) quotes to there. Please read FAQ for more information. Also, please note that, like Wikipedia, we do not allow removal of VFD tags after nomination until the vote is closed. Thank you for your cooperation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:55, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

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Opera

in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (libretto) and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. In traditional opera, singers do two types of singing: recitative, a speech-inflected style and arias, a more melodic style. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance. The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble, which since the early 19th century has been led by a conductor.

Quotes

 * No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
 * W. H. Auden, in TIME magazine (29 December 1961)

 * I love this opera. I always return to it every year because it keeps me centered. I love the story, and it reminds me to focus on what's really important in life
 * Antoine Hodge according to "Up-and-coming opera singer Antoine Hodge succumbs to"COVID-19 (March 1, 2021)

 * An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.
 * Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1779-81), "Hughes." (Of Italian opera.)

 * For, without cruelty, only a limited success is ever possible in opera.
 * R. A. Lafferty, Selenium Ghosts of the Eighteen Seventies (1978), in Terry Carr (ed.), The Year's Finest Fantasy: Volume 2, p. 233 (originally published in Universe 8)

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Đorđe Balašević

Đorđe Balašević (born 11 May 1953, died 19 February 2021), Singer-songwriter very popular in countries of former Yugoslavia.

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 * "While we were growing up, the biggest insult for us was when dark emigrant forces called our homeland an unnatural, artificial creation. When we grew up, the biggest insult for us was when we realised that was true."
 * ("Tri posleratna druga", page 106).

 * "From far away, through the sights of a sniper, they would look like Muslims, Serbs or Croats to somebody, but I approached them face to face, I saw them clearly, and trust me... They were just people..."
 * (of his first post-war Sarajevo concert)

 * "I have always been against the war; I placed my family's existence in danger because I was speaking out against primitivism and nationalism and stupidity. I didn't do that so I could perform in Croatia again one day, but so I could talk with my children as a man, when the time comes." \
 * (from an interview for Croatian television, aired on December 29 2000).

 * "Like Machiavelli would say, little Jovana was five months old, and I was prepared to write even "I saw Feldmarshall Göring three times", just to slip away from the barracks for two days and see my little girl and her beautiful mother."
 * Balašević on songs "Računajte na nas" and "Triput sam video Tita" ("Dodir svile", page 85).

 * "I said: 'I'll come [to Sarajevo]' and they asked me if I'm afraid; headlines where I'm from were saying: 'Balašević to be assassinated in Sarajevo'. [...] Let me tell you whether I'm afraid to come to Sarajevo... If I was afraid of something, I would seek refuge in Sarajevo. I told them: 'Okay, I'm going and it will be the way it is, it's alright'. [They said:] 'Aren't you afraid for your life? Afraid of an assassination?' I said: If that's the price, to be in the cross-hairs of some madman for 2 days. They were in the cross-hairs for 5 years. It's a way for me to, for at least 2 days, be a citizen of Sarajevo. At least in that way."
 * Stream of consciousness monologue during 1998 concert in Sarajevo, less than two years following the end of Siege of Sarajevo.

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Talk:Miguel de Cervantes

"El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho." Translation: "He who reads much and walks much sees much and knows much." the correct translation is:

"Who reads much and walks much sees much and knows much."

There are in spanish diferences between:

:Él (he)

There is a correlation between this stuff

The pen is the tongue of the soul...
La pluma es la lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales serán sus escritos.

I removed a somewhat literal translation of this for which I could find no published source: "The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings." I replaced this with the 1895 translation by Henry Edward Watts: "The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written." If I do come across a source for the other I might re-add it as a variant.

I will probably add a few translations from various sources for some quotes as I proceed to work on this, but expect to have time to do only a very limited amount of sourcing and addition within the next day. After that I will probably work on it at least a bit more, but probably only gradually. ~ Kalki 03:29, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows
Perhaps I don't know what is meant by "Sourced", but "the sweat of my brows" is not original to Cervantes. He is very deliberately quoting from Genesis. -- 24.63.56.145 13:14, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Don Quixote References

 * A source needs to be listed that correlates with these references. The only editions I found did not correlate with these references at all. So a correlating reference needs to be listed or all the references need to be changed to the most common editions found. (of course...there is always the possibility that I am a brainless idiot who simply can't find anything).Ebt66 (talk) 01:01, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Some editions number the chapters differently (e.g. beginning each book with chapter 1 vs. continuing sequentially from the previous book's last chapter number), which can be a little confusing, but this is not the main problem. The most important thing missing from the citations is to identify the translations . Many different translations have been produced over the years, and some of the translators were quite, um, liberal in substituting their own ideas for what Cervantes wrote. It would also be very helpful if someone with a good knowledge of Spanish could provide exact quotes from the original text that correspond the English translations, and indentify the interpolations that do not correspond to Cervantes at all. (For example, where the characters quote proverbial sayings that were familiar to Cervantes's original audience, some translators have substituted entirely different and unrelated proverbs that they though more apropos for their own audiences.) ~ Ningauble (talk) 16:36, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * @Ningauble: well said, but how would you deal with the interpolations? (For example: "no encubriéndosela yo"→"I was so free with him as not to mince the matter"; "no yéndole nada en ello"→"They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains"?) And what about quotes that have no Spanish equivalent at all (e.g. "As ill-luck would have it")? ~ DanielTom (talk) 20:51, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I am not sure what the best practice(s) should be. Here are a few things that come to mind as food for thought:
 * If the translation is not cited or readily identified, and it does not appear to be widely quoted, then it might simply be removed as potentially bogus, on the grounds that "if it ain't cited it ain't a quote".(You can quote me on that.)
 * If uncited translations are to be retained, perhaps provisionally or as variants if they seem reasonably plausible, it might be useful to have a new version of the source template specifically for uncited translations.
 * If the source of translation can be found, and it has resulted in widespread misattribution, then it could be placed in a Misattributed section. This is what I did in a similar case involving Plato's Republic.
 * If the only thing that is pithy about the quote is a pre-existing proverb or proverbial phrase inserted by the translator, and it has not resulted in widespread misattribution to Cervantes, I would consider deleting it for not being an original quote of Cervantes or the translator.
 * If the original is perfectly quoteworthy without the translator's amendments, consider just replacing it with a better (cited) translation.
 * If the source of translation is notoriously unreliable, as described, e.g., at Don Quixote, a note to that effect might be included. I also did this in the case of Plato linked above.
 * This list of ideas is not exhaustive. Some of these options might be controversial. ~ Ningauble (talk) 20:21, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Miguel de Cervantes. --Antiquary 18:49, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Amistades que son ciertas nadie las puede turbar.
 * Nobody can disrupt true friendships.

 * Amor y deseo son dos cosas diferentes; que no todo lo que se ama se desea, ni todo lo que se desea se ama.
 * Love and desire are two different things; not everything that is loved is desired, and not everything that is desired is loved.

 * En los principios amorosos los desengaños prestos suelen ser remedios calificados.
 * In the loving principles the quick disappointments are usually described remedies.

 * Encomiéndate a Dios de todo corazón, que muchas veces suele llover sus misericordias en el tiempo que están más secas las esperanzas.
 * Commend yourself to God with all your heart; He often rains down His mercies when hope is at its driest.

 * La buena y verdadera amistad no debe ser sospechosa en nada.
 * True and good friendship must not be suspicious of anything.

 * Más vale la pena en el rostro que la mancha en el corazón.
 * Grief on the face is better than the stain in the heart.

 * He who loses wealth loses much, he who loses a friend loses more, but he that loses his honor loses all.

Wrong quote
"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched" isn't from Cervantes. The original reads as "no ande buscando tres pies al gato". First occurrence I can find of "Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched" is in the 1803 English edition (translator is not acknowledged : "translated by several hands"). (Actually many websites mention this sentence as a Yiddish proverb, which is what I'm trying to confirm.)

There are probably many other wrongly attributed quotes, one probably wants to review this list of liberal translations. Skippy le Grand Gourou (talk) 21:03, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually the "1803 edition" is a reedition of the 1700 edition by Peter Anthony Motteux, and is apparently reputed for the "liberality" (to be kind) of the translation. See also Don_Quixote. Skippy le Grand Gourou (talk) 21:50, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

"Time ripens all things" is a widely repeated misquotation
"Time ripens all things", which used to be the epigraph of the leading photo in this article, is widely attributed to Cervantes. It appears in numerous quote collections. However, it does not appear in Don Quixote. The rest of the quote, "no man is born wise. Bishops are made of men and not of stones," is indeed said by the Duchess to Sancho in Chapter XXXIII of Don Quixote II. It would be interesting to know how "time ripens all things" got attributed to Cervantes so often to the point of becoming iconic in English.

 * It's important to keep in mind that old translations were often not literal, but free (paraphrastic). For example, Thomas d'Urfey in 1694 rendered it: "Ah, dear Sir, consider no man is born wise, a Bishop is no more than another Man without Grace, and good Breeding." (interpolations in italics). To answer your question, this 1771 translation has it: "You say well, Sancho, said the Duchess, for time ripens all things. No man is born wise; bishops are made of men, and not of stones." ~ DanielTom (talk) 01:25, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Although I have not researched this particular phrase in detail, there is an important point that quoters of Don Quixote should bear in mind: A large part of the wit and charm of dialogues between the Don and the Duchess lies in the way they speak to each other in proverbs. Cervantes achieved this using Spanish proverbs and proverbial phrases that were familiar to his Spanish audience. Close translation of many of the Spanish proverbs would tend to fall flat because English readers would not recognize them as proverbs, or would even find them meaningless. In order to achieve the same effect in English, several translators inserted entirely different English proverbs and proverbial phrases that would be familiar to an English audience. This can be very successful in capturing the spirit of the original work, but hardly qualifies as quotation of Cervantes. ~ Ningauble (talk) 15:06, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Aha! I had heard of this translation, and not many good things. I had suspected that it was this translation that added that cheesy "time ripens all things" crap, but I couldn't find a copy of it online. Thanks for finding it! I still find this rendering of the original very cheesy. I think it's the only translation in which this appears. Can we attribute the quote to Motteaux instead of Cervantes? JordiGH (talk) 16:17, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * No, Motteaux did not invent the proverb in his 1771 translation of Cervantes. It is a common proverb that can be found in print more than a century earlier . The true origins of such proverbs are notoriously difficult to pin down. ~ Ningauble (talk) 20:23, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
 * JordiGH, see the note I added. ~ DanielTom (talk) 21:35, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Too much of a good thing
Comparing these quotes listed as belonging to book 1, chapter 6: with Wikisource chapter 6 with and with this Spanish edition, I can't find either of them. Am I looking in the wrong place? These are the only two quotations I checked. Mathglot (talk) 03:55, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * He had a face like a benediction.
 * Can we ever have too much of a good thing?
 * Okay, found it in the Spanish: "...pero nunca lo bueno fue mucho". Mathglot (talk) 04:20, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

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User talk:EddieSegoura

Eddie Segoura
Eddie, you seem to be misunderstanding several things about Wikiquote, and I'd like to clear these things up so we can benefit from your contributions here. First, let me apologize for not posting the following comments on your talk page at the same time I posted them to the pages of the two anonymous editors who contributed to non-VFD edits of Eddie Segoura:

 * Editors using IP addresses 205.188.117.13 and 69.112.54.11 (at least one presumably being Wikipedia user EddieSegoura) created or edited a quote article titled Eddie Segoura. It was quickly nominated for deletion as having a non-notable subject. Please note that this is not a criticism of quoteworthiness. Wikiquote's Main Page introduction clearly states that it is a compendium of quotes from notable people and creative works, like any significant quotation publication (e.g., Bartlett's, Oxford), just as Wikipedia is an encyclopedia for notable topics. We no more accept personal quotation articles from WQ editors than WP accepts articles about WP editors. Like Wikipedia, we do allow editors to place such information on their user pages; in fact, we encourage folks to add their own (or their friends' or any favorite) quotes to there. Please read FAQ for more information. Also, please note that, like Wikipedia, we do not allow removal of VFD tags after nomination until the vote is closed. Thank you for your cooperation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:55, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

There is no easy way even for sysops to connect IP addresses to user names (which is usually a good thing), thus the wording of the text. It was my intention to notify you of these practices, in the hopes that you would recognize that Wikiquote is no different from Wikipedia, in which I'd seen you have already been participating. Unfortunately, I'd forgotten that you (as your user ID) had not edited the article, but had posted a VFD vote; otherwise, I would have posted the comments above here as well.

Please do not take this personally, Eddie. Neither users nor sysops have the "right" to remove VFD tags before vote closure. When someone nominates an article for deletion, the community is obligated to consider its merits in the context of Wikiquote policy for a minimum of 2 weeks, unless there is a specific case that permits speedy deletion. Even if speedy deletion seems warranted, a sysop must use careful judgment to avoid controversial early closures. This is standard practice both on Wikipedia and Wikiquote (although our deadline is longer because our smaller community needs more time to review articles). Therefore, we are very likely to quickly restore deleted VFD tags, even if it takes us a few days to get to reviewing the article for potential speedy deletion. And even though this seems to be a "no-brainer", as virtually no WP or WQ editor is notable enough to warrant a main namespace article on themselves, we nearly always err on the side of policy. You should not feel embarrassed by having a self-quote article under review or deleted; it's just a policy that you apparently were unaware of.

As I mentioned, I noticed that you've edited on Wikipedia for several weeks. Consider the likely reaction there if you were to write an autobiographical article about yourself. (I'm assuming you aren't famous; if I'm wrong, then you may have a legitimate reason for both a WP and and WQ article. But the community would need some evidence of this.) Someone would very likely post an AFD (article for deletion; WP's version of VFD) request there, and the WP community would then make a case for whether you have sufficient notability to warrant an article, just like Wikiquote. (They might actually be a bit ruder, but that's because people are less likely to consider themselves worthy of world encyclopedia articles, so the folks who do this are often vandals, which WP suffers from even more than WQ.) Unfortunately, we at Wikiquote do have some difficulty making people understand that we aren't a compendium of quotations from everyone in the world, any more than Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that lists everything known in the world. Both projects have notability and verifiability requirements.

I apologize for "talking your ear off" about this. (If you spend more time with us here, you'll come to see that verbosity is one of my major sins.) But I don't want you to have such a bad initial experience with Wikiquote. I'm convinced you just didn't realize the "no-vanity article" policy, and made an not-uncommon mistake by placing a personal quote in a main-namespace article. The VFD, not incidentally, gives you time to create a user page and move your quote there, with no hard feelings from the community. (Take a look at my user page to see I have my own quotes as well; it's rather common practice here.) I hope that we can look forward to your ongoing participation here as well as on Wikipedia. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:48, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

 * After reviewing Speedy deletions, I see that case #7, which is really about redirects (automatic browser redirections to a different wiki page), implies that editors (not just sysops) can move articles that are more appropriate as user pages to a user-page title. (Sysops can then speedy-delete the redirects in a few days to remove the article from the main article space.) If you like, we can move the current Eddie Segoura to User:EddieSegoura and delete the VFD tag. Let me know if this suits you, or if you have any questions about this or any other Wikiquote matter. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:09, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Wow, what an overwhelming amount of feedback! In any case, redirecting or moving is fine.  The deletion request was made by another anonymous IP.  I felt the correct course of action was an  RfV, rather than ambush the new page with deletion.

P.S. I'm actively pursuing a Sysop promotion on Wikipedia so I'm trying really hard to make as many contributions as a can. It's unfortunate every site needs a separate account, though. -- EddieSegoura 04:37, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called EddieSegoura. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name EddieSegoura~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist and poet. His conversational novels satirize the philosophical preoccupations of the Romantic era.

Quotes

 * MR. PANSCOPE. (suddenly emerging from a deep reverie.) I have heard, with the most profound attention, everything which the gentleman on the other side of the table has thought proper to advance on the subject of human deterioration; and I must take the liberty to remark, that it augurs a very considerable degree of presumption in any individual, to set himself up against the authority of so many great men, as may be marshalled in metaphysical phalanx under the opposite banners of the controversy; such as Aristotle, Plato, the scholiast on Aristophanes, St Chrysostom, St Jerome, St Athanasius, Orpheus, Pindar, Simonides, Gronovius, Hemsterhusius, Longinus, Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Paine, Doctor Paley, the King of Prussia, the King of Poland, Cicero, Monsieur Gautier, Hippocrates, Machiavelli, Milton, Colley Cibber, Bojardo, Gregory Nazianzenus, Locke, D'Alembert, Boccaccio, Daniel Defoe, Erasmus, Doctor Smollett, Zimmermann, Solomon, Confucius, Zoroaster, and Thomas-a-Kempis. MR. ESCOT.  I presume, sir, you are one of those who value an authority more than a reason. MR. PANSCOPE.  The authority, sir, of all these great men, whose works, as well as the whole of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the entire series of the Monthly Review, the complete set of the Variorum Classics, and the Memoirs of the Academy of Inscriptions, I have read through from beginning to end, deposes, with irrefragable refutation, against your ratiocinative speculations, wherein you seem desirous, by the futile process of analytical dialectics, to subvert the pyramidal structure of synthetically deduced opinions, which have withstood the secular revolutions of physiological disquisition, and which I maintain to be transcendentally self-evident, categorically certain, and syllogistically demonstrable. SQUIRE HEADLONG.  Bravo! Pass the bottle. The very best speech that ever was made. MR. ESCOT. It has only the slight disadvantage of being unintelligible. MR. PANSCOPE. I am not obliged, Sir, as Dr Johnson remarked on a similar occasion, to furnish you with an understanding.  MR. ESCOT. I fear, Sir, you would have some difficulty in furnishing me with such an article from your own stock. MR. PANSCOPE. 'Sdeath, Sir, do you question my understanding? MR. ESCOT. I only question, Sir, where I expect a reply, which from what manifestly has no existence, I am not visionary enough to anticipate.  MR. PANSCOPE. I beg leave to observe, sir, that my language was perfectly perspicuous, and etymologically correct; and, I conceive, I have demonstrated what I shall now take the liberty to say in plain terms, that all your opinions are extremely absurd. MR. ESCOT. I should be sorry, sir, to advance any opinion that you would not think absurd. MR. PANSCOPE. Death and fury, Sir! MR. ESCOT. Say no more, Sir - that apology is quite sufficient. MR. PANSCOPE. Apology, Sir?  MR. ESCOT. Even so, Sir.  You have lost your temper, which I consider equivalent to a confession that you have the worst of the argument. MR. PANSCOPE. Lightnings and devils!
 * Headlong Hall, chapter V (1816).

 * Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
 * Melincourt, chapter VII (1817).

 * There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it. The first is obvious, mechanical, and plebeian; the second is most refined, abstract, prospicient, and canonical.
 * Melincourt, chapter XVI.

 * The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
 * Melincourt, chapter XXIV.

 * When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.
 * Nightmare Abbey, chapter I (1818).

 * The mountain sheep are sweeter But the valley sheep are fatter; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. We made an expedition; We met a host, and quelled it; We forced a strong position, And killed the men who held it... As we drove our prize at leisure, The king marched forth to catch us: His rage surpassed all measure, But his people could not match us. He fled to his hall-pillars; And, ere our force we led off, Some sacked his house and cellars, While others cut his head off.
 * "The War-Song of Dinas Vawr", stanzas 1 and 3, from The Misfortunes of Elphin, chapter XI (1829). In the same chapter this is described as "the quintessence of all the war-songs that ever were written, and the sum and substance of all the appetencies, tendencies, and consequences of military glory".

 * Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
 * Crotchet Castle, chapter III (1832).

 * My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is, me judice [in my opinion], no book - it is a plaything.
 * Crotchet Castle, chapter IX. Though not named, the author under discussion is clearly Sir Walter Scott.

 * I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
 * Crotchet Castle, chapter XVIII.

 * I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
 * Gryll Grange, chapter XIX (1860).

title: Thomas Love Peacock