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Talk:Wisdom

An Attempt at Organization
This page was huge and sort of willy-nilly. I thought I'd try to give it some organization by broadly categorizing it into era, which gives you a better sense of what's on the page in a short amount of time. Now, as you can see, I didn't know what era all the quotes fell into (what a scholar I would be if I did!), and I further imagine I'm flat wrong about a couple, and even further that some of the categories may be a little fuzzily defined on the edges. You may choose to fix any of this, but I hope the effort has been successful, and a good start. Stancollins 15:33, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

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Wisdom?
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. ~ Lao Zi (Lao-Tzu)

This quotation seems to have nothing to do with wisdom!

"A wise man speaks..."
For a discussion of the source of this quote (perhaps traceable to Elements of Rhetoric by Richard Whately, 1858) see a post on Language Log. --Levana Taylor 22:58, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Classical/ancient

 * It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. ~ Aeschylus

 * Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. ~ Aesop

 * Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. ~ Cato

 * By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ~ Confucius

 * There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom. ~ Democritus

 * The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. ~ Euripides

 * To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish. ~ Euripides

 * Better Weight than wisdom a traveller cannot carry. The poor man's strength in a strange place, worth more than wealth. ~ Hávamál, The Sayings of the Vikings.

 * Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars. ~ Heraclitus

 * Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. ~ Jesus Christ (Matthew 10:16).

 * Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. ~ Lao Zi (Lao-Tzu)

 * Wise men hear and see as little children do. ~ Lao-Tzu.

 * Nevertheless, wisdom is vindicated by all her children.
 * Luke 7:35, Bible: New Testament

 * The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. ~ Proverbs 9:10.

 * Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
 * Proverbs 24:4, Bible (KJV)

 * Wisdom begins in wonder. ~ Socrates
 * Variant: Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

 * And in knowing, that you know nothing, makes you the smartest of all. ~ Socrates

 * My son, if you will receive my sayings and treasure up my own commandments with yourself, so as to pay attention to wisdom with your ear, that you may incline your heart to discernment; if, moreover, you call out for understanding itself and you give forth your voice for discernment itself, if you keep seeking for it as for silver, and as for hid treasures you keep searching for it, in that case you will understand the fear of Jehovah, and you will find the very knowledge of God. For Jehovah himself gives wisdom; out of his mouth there are knowledge and discernment. ~ Solomon ~ Proverbs 2:1-6 ; New World Translation

 * Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. ~ Sophocles.

 * Much wisdom often goes with brevity of speech. ~ Sophocles (497–406/5 BC), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 89 (Aletes).

 * In the wisdom of his heart a wise man ought to adorn himself with wise precepts. ~ Anglo-Saxon Proverb from 'A Collection of Proverbs', Anglo-Saxon Prose, translated by Michael Swaton, J. M. Dent (1993).

Medieval/Renaissance/Enlightenment

 * A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ~ Francis Bacon

 * There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom. ~ Francis Bacon

 * A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. ~ Francis Bacon

 * Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ~ Anne Bradstreet

 * Time ripens all things; no man is born wise. ~ Miguel de Cervantes

 * It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition. ~ Carl von Clausewitz

 * The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations. ~ Isaac D'Israeli

 * All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. ~ Alexandre Dumas

 * A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. ~ Benjamin Franklin

 * He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom. ~ Benjamin Franklin

 * In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence; the second, listening; the third, remembering; the fourth, practicing; the fifth, teaching others. ~ Ibn Gabirol

 * Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever. ~ Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), British philosopher. From the dedication, in De Cive (1642).

 * A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ~ David Hume

 * Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. ~ Francis Hutcheson, Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, I. v.

 * Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation. ~ Thomas Jefferson

 * To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. ~ Samuel Johnson

 * Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly. ~ Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist and aphorist. Upon Some Verses of Virgil, Bk. 3, Ch. 5, Essays, translated by John Florio (1588).

 * He who lives without folly isn't as reasonable as he thinks he is. ~ François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680).

 * Wisdom is the daughter of experience. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Later 18th and 19th century

 * The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom; for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough. ~ William Blake

 * Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. ~ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

 * Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Have oft-times no connexion, Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
 * Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one,
 * William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book VI, "Winter Walk at Noon", l. 88
 * Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
 * William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book VI, "Winter Walk at Noon", l. 96.

 * The fool wonders, the wise man asks. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

 * In our age... men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with knowledge, and knowledge with information, and to try to solve problems of life in terms of engineering. ~ T.S. Eliot (SOURCED on main page)

 * The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), American essayist, poet, aphorist. "Experience", Essays, Second Series (1844).

 * The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, Ch. 8 (1836).

 * We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 * Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 * It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

 * Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ~ Immanuel Kant

 * The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. ~ George Santayana (1863-1952), American philosopher, essayist. Reason in Religion, Ch. 2 (1945).

 * Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
 * Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, letter to his son, November 19, 1745.

 * To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

 * Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
 * Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall (1842), St. 71. (SOURCED on main page)

 * With wisdom we shall learn liberality. ~ Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), American author. Walden (1854).

 * Our live is frittered away by detail.... Simplify, simplify. ~ Henry David Thoreau

 * As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.
 * Mark Twain, "English as She Is Taught", Century Magazine, May 1887, as reprinted in Essays and Sketches of Mark Twain (1995), ed. Stuart Miller, ISBN 1566198798
 * We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it— and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again— and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ~ Mark Twain

 * Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. ~ Walt Whitman

Modern era (20th/21st centuries)

 * The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~ Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988).

 * Never regret something you've done, even if it was wrong, it still can be a great piece of memory that someday made you smile, or made you cry. ~ Feras Yaghmour

 * Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. ~ General Omar Bradley

 * A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. ~ Admiral Richard E. Byrd

 * When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wise. ~ Whittaker Chambers

 * Wisdom is the constant questioning of where you are. And when you stop wanting to know, you're dead. ~ Billy Connolly, Daily Express, 29th October 2008.

 * Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness. ~ Mason Cooley (1927-2002), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection (1989).

 * A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice. ~ Bill Cosby

 * Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. ~ Norman Cousins, Saturday Review magazine, 15th April 1978.

 * It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it, and appropriately act on it. ~ Stephen Covey

 * Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty. ~ Will Durant

 * Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it. ~ Albert Einstein

 * After wisdom comes wit. ~ Evan Esar

 * Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning...and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. ~ Bergen Evans

 * A poet begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ~ Robert Frost

 * Sometimes out of ignorance childish wisdom spills out. ~ Stephen Fry, British comic actor, author and presenter. A comment on one of his guests' answers, in the BBC 2 television programme, QI XL, 23rd January 2010.

 * Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ~ Jimi Hendrix

 * The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. ~ Eric Hoffer (1902–1983), American philosopher. The Passionate State of Mind (1955).

 * If Wisdom was before all, and through wisdom all things are ordered, then Wisdom is the true verdict of morality in view of eternity. For that which was before time, by nature, transcends all things temporal. And that which is above, exposes those things that are below, as vapors rising fleetingly before the Sun. ~ Elika S. Kohen

 * Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. ~ Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Austrian satirist ansd aphorist. Sprüche und Widersprüche, Ch. 4 (1909).

 * The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. ~ Claude Levi-Strauss

 * It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ~ Walter Lippman

 * A wise person is the result of Godly training, but foolish person an outcome of pride. Stanley Matthew Mayalil

 * The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ~ H. L. Mencken

 * Information isn't wisdom. Information isn't learning. If information were learning, you could be educated by memorizing the world almanac. If you did that, you wouldn't be educated. You'd be weird ~ David McCullough

 * Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. ~ Octavio Paz (b. 1914), Mexican poet. The Times (UK) newspaper, 8th June 1989
 * I think that wisdom is the ability to cope. ~ Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury

 * More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 * The wisest mind has something yet to learn. ~ George Santayana

 * The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection— or even to seek the "best possible" result in each separate instance. ~ Thomas Sowell

 * A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose. ~ Mark Twain

 * A man with wisdom is better off than a stupid man with any amount of charms and superstition. ~ Feras Yaghmour

 * Life is to be lived, not to be understood. ~ Feras Yaghmour

 * Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. Lin Yutang

 * I distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.
 * The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. I : The Awakening

 * To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is; and despise affectation. ~ Horace Walpole

Unattributed/anonymous

 * To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid

 * A counsellor who understands proverbs soon sets matters right. ~ Anonymous

 * A man may be born to wealth, but wisdom comes only with length of days. ~ Anonymous

 * Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone. ~ Unknown

 * Don't fix it if it ain't broken. ~ Anonymous American saying
 * Variant: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. (Note the deliberate omission of the 'n' after 'broke'.).

 * Know thyself better than he who speaks of thee. ~ Anonymous

 * Knowledge cuts up the world. Wisdom makes it whole. ~ Brazilian proverb

 * Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse. ~ Anonymous

 * Humility and knowledge breed wisdom. ~ Anonymous

 * There is wisdom in knowing what you need to know, and being wise enough to keep it to yourself. ~ Anonymous

 * A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something. ~ Frequently attributed to Plato, but not apparently found in his work

 * There is no greater sorrow than knowing everything, because we humans live for the questions. ~ Anonymous

 * Knowledge is a gift, those who have it give, those who don't, recieve. ~ Anonymous

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 * Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ~ Lin Yutang

 * Even stupid things should be done wisely. ~ Jacek Bukowski.

 * Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~ Elbert Hubbard

 * For as it is the chief concern of wise men to retrench the evils of life by the reasonings of philosophy; it is the employment of fools to multiply them by the sentiments of superstition. ~ Joseph Addison

 * Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ~ George Arliss

 * In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues. ~ Jospeh Jastrow

 * It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. ~ W. R. Inge

 * It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth. ~ Jeanne-Marie Roland

 * It is no longer enough to be smart— all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential. ~ Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer in Chaos to Coherence.

 * It's not what you've been given, it's what you do with what you've got. ~ Eddi Reader

 * It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

 * Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. ~ William Godwin

 * Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. ~ Abba Eban

 * Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ~ James Boswell

 * Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. ~ Sandra Carey

 * One's first step in wisdom is to question everything— and one's last is to come to terms with everything. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

 * Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. ~ Merry Browne

 * Some folk are wise, and some are otherwise. ~ Tobias Smollett

 * Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. ~Howard W. Newton

 * The biggest difficulty with mankind today is that our knowledge has increased so much faster than our wisdom ~ Frank Whitmore

 * The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. ~ Michel de Montaigne
 * Variant: The highest of wisdom is continual cheerfulness: such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene.

 * The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way. ~ Eric Hoffer

 * The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. ~ William Ralph Inge

 * Truth never plays false roles of any kind, which is why people are so surprised when meeting it. Everyone must decide whether he wants the uncompromising truth or a counterfeit version of truth. Real wisdom consists of recommending the truth to yourself at every opportunity. ~ Vernon Howard

 * We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me. ~ Jack Handy

 * Wisdom: acting on what knowledge you have. ~ Zach Zeisler

 * Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. ~ William Cowper

 * Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. ~ David Starr Jordan

 * Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately. ~ Matthew Henry

 * Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. ~ Eric Hoffer

 * Knowledge is knowing that the street is one way, wisdom is looking both directions anyways. ~ Anonymous.

 * For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. ~ Solomon

 * Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. ~ Aesop

 * When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. ~ Mark Twain

 * I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. ~ Thomas Jefferson

 * Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~ St. Augustine

 * Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.~ Alfred Lord Tennyson (SOURCED on main page)

 * It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ~ Walter Lippmann

 * All I know is that I know nothing. ~ Socrates

 * Above all else, the greatest gift and the most wondrous blessing hath ever been and will continue to be Wisdom. ~ Bahá'u'lláh

 * It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. ~ Thoreau

 * I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ~ Thomas Carlyle

 * He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. ~ Gandalf, from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in The fellowship of the Rings, Bk. II, Ch 2.

 * The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~ William James (1842-1910).

Disputed
or Smollett?
 * Some folks are wise and some otherwise. ~ Josh Billings

Ragno Nero
Has anyone heard of Ragno Nero? Here's a quote I came across here: “Wise is the man who knows how to recognize his mistakes.” --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 14:39, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

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Good work on Wisdom — you are, indeed, bold. Glad to have you aboard ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 15:39, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Stan. Please note that it is highly discouraged to create wikiquote articles without any quotes whatsoever. Since I did not want the first article you created to be deleted, I went ahead and scrounged up a quote by Madam Blavastky. It would be highly appreciated in the future, if you wish to create more articles, if you could dig up a quote or (preferably) more to go on the page. Thanks again for your work, and I wish you a prolific stay in wikiquote ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:52, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

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You are not giving us the correct or apte or needed information.This is too bad the impression will be soon melt if you go on like this

possible quote
This quote is usually attributed to Hilbert (taken driectly from "Prime Obsession") 'One of Hilbert's students stopped showing up to classes. On enquiring the reason, Hilbert was told that the student had left the university to become a poet. Hilbert:"I can't say I'm surprised. I never thought he had enough imagination to be a mathematician."'

Also can someone work in the anecdote about him at his student's funeral.

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 * But Gentlemen, a faculty is no swimming baths!
 * Reply to the opponents of the habilitation of the female mathematician Emmy Noether.

 * Eine jede Wissenschaft fällt, hat sie erst eine gewisse Reife erreicht, automatisch der Mathematik anheim.
 * Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

 * Man muss immer mit den einfachsten Beispielen anfangen.
 * One must always begin with the simplest examples.

 * Some people have got a mental horizon of radius zero and call it their point of view.

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Same as it ever was.

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where's the cast from? it's not from the movie version mentioned on top.
 * Most of the cast is from Scotland. Of the main cast members, only Jonny Lee Miller isn't.

Where in the movie does Renton say the bit about employment? I don't remember that, and I've watched it quite a few times.

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Diana Cooper

Lady Diana Cooper, born Lady Diana Manners (29 August 1892 – 16 June 1986) was a British actress and author, wife of Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, becoming Diana, Viscountess Norwich in 1951 — a title she is said to have abhorred, publicly declaring that she declined to be called "Lady Norwich" and would continue to use "Lady Diana Cooper".

Quotes

 * You have never, I think, known real Grief — panic, melancholia, madness, night-sweats, we've all known for most of our lives — you and me particularly. I'm not sure you know human love in the way I do. You have faith and mysticism — intense inner interests — a diverting, virile mind — gusto for vengeance and destruction if necessary, a fancy — a gospel. What you can't imagine is a creature with a certain iridescent aura and nothing within but a beating frightened heart built round and for Duff. . . For two days I am quite alone — in these empty rooms with one thought one prayer — "let it end now" — an absurd feminine desire to die in the same way exactly as Duff. [ I have now a ] fearlessness of death — so let it come now before custom of living disinclines me for dying.
 * Letter to Evelyn Waugh (1 January 1954)

 * It has always been my temptation to put myself in other people's shoes: even into a horse's shoes as he strains before the heavy dray; into a ballerina's points as she feels age weigh upon her spring; into Cinderella's slippers as she danced till midnight; into the jackboot that kicks; into the Tommy's boots that tramp; into the magic seven-leaguers. With experience of age I have learned to control this habit of sympathy which deforms truth.
 * "Winston and Clementine"

Quotes about Cooper

 * It was reported that the fireworks were beginning and Diana, ever enthusiastic, led the procession to the roof. I was bringing up the rear, had reached the top floor and was about to climb the ladder that led up from it, when I heard the sound of shattered glass followed, after what seemed to me a long interval, by the sound of a falling body. I opened a door from behind which the noise seemed to come and looked into a narrow box-room, on the floor of which Diana was lying. She had fallen through a skylight about twenty-five feet from the floor. The opening was so narrow that the large hat she was wearing remained on the roof. She had broken her thigh... This was not an auspicious beginning to our married life.
 * Duff Cooper in Old Men Forget (1955)

 * Did my mother know … Of course she did — and she didn't mind a bit. They had an incredibly happy marriage, but my father wasn't faithful to her for a single second. There was scarcely a trace of jealousy in her character. She worshipped the ground he walked on, but she wasn't very highly sexed — she was quite glad that other women were taking the weight off her, as it were. I once asked her if she minded. She said: "They were the flowers, but I was the tree."
 * John Julius Norwich, on his mother's attitude toward the affairs of his father, in "John Julius Norwich:'Deep down, I'm shallow. I really am'" in The Daily Telegraph (4 June 2008)

 * You find something agreeable in almost everyone. I am put off by anything not wholly agreeable.
 * Evelyn Waugh in a letter to Cooper

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Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.

Quotes

 * None of the great movements of the nineteenth century is more typical of its age than that for the freeing of the slaves. It depended on all those fallacies that are being abandoned today: the idea of a perfectible evolutionary man, of a responsible democratic voter, of the beneficial effect of mechanization, and, above all, on sentimental belief in the basic sweetness of human nature.
 * 'Was He Right to Free the Slaves?', The Daily Express (15 July 1933), quoted in The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Donat Gallagher (1983), p. 135

 * There are always honourable exceptions in any general racial condemnation, and, heaven knows, the white people of the north have not made such a success of their own civilization that they can afford any extravagance of phrase. But it is not too much to say that in general character the descendants of the Negro slaves in the British Empire are a thriftless and dissolute lot. It is an unexpected development from the simple, woolly-headed, golden-hearted Bible-reading old darky that was held up as an example to European subscribers – the good old Uncle Tom who was to grow in the air of freedom into an educated, prudent and pious family man and citizen. The sugar plantations have been ruined or mechanized, and the Negroes, instead of following the example of the indentured coolies and becoming small proprietors, working long hours in the country, drift to the intermittent employment of the towns. They have proved quite unfit for retail trade: they are clumsy mechanics, a superstitious and excitable riff-raff hanging round the rum shops and staring listlessly at the Chinese, Madeiran and East Indian immigrants, who outstrip them in every branch of life. In Liberia, where they have been put in political power, they have erected a rigid racial bar between the immigrant and the aboriginal Negroes, and have introduced a system of forced labour more onerous than the slavery from which they were themselves freed.
 * 'Was He Right to Free the Slaves?', The Daily Express (15 July 1933), quoted in The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Donat Gallagher (1983), p. 135

 * It is not the state of slavery so much as the process of enslavement that is intolerable: and it is worth noting that the European slave trade was principally for the transport of people already enslaved. That is to say, the traders purchased captives from the warrior tribes. Undoubtedly the trade stimulated the raiding, but free blacks first captured other free blacks and then sold them to the whites.
 * 'Was He Right to Free the Slaves?', The Daily Express (15 July 1933), quoted in The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Donat Gallagher (1983), p. 136

 * William Wilberforce was inflated by the true nineteenth-century arrogance of thinking that a little local uplift could reverse the development of centuries. Slave raiding has from remotest times been the hobby of the warrior tribes of Africa: slave ownership has been one of the postulates of every civilization. British wealth and British sentiment were strong enough to upset a system which, like any other, had abuses but also many redeeming virtues, but British intelligence was not up to anticipating the problem it created.
 * 'Was He Right to Free the Slaves?', The Daily Express (15 July 1933), quoted in The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Donat Gallagher (1983), p. 136

 * It is one of the facts of history that it is impossible for two peoples of widely different culture to live peaceably side by side. Sooner or later one must absorb the other. It is not necessarily the highest culture which survives. It is the more virile. Early history is full of records of advanced and fine cultures being absorbed by barbarians. Lately – but only very lately, in the last two centuries – the tale has been reversed and we have seen, one by one, the lower civilizations falling to the higher. We have come to accept this as a universal law, when, in point of fact, it is due to the accident that our own civilization has taken the form, that invention has given new physical strength to counterbalance the loss in virility.
 * 'We Can Applaud Italy', The Evening Standard (13 February 1935), quoted in The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Donat Gallagher (1983), p. 163

 * 1910–11 was a time of the wildest uncertainty and political ferment. True, those good old politicians who still figure in the cartoons were already with us, but in what different guise! Our die-hard Mr Winston Churchill was the radical Home Secretary; Mr Ramsay MacDonald was preaching class war with something very near to verbal coherence; Mr Lloyd George, whom frequent photographs have endeared to us as a benevolent landed proprietor, was inveighing against the privileges of the gentry in terms which might have been translated direct from Danton or Robespierre.
 * 'In Quest of the Pre-War Georgian', Harper's Bazaar (May 1935), quoted in The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Donat Gallagher (1983), p. 166

 * I know Spain only as a tourist and a reader of the newspapers. I am no more impressed by the "legality" of the Valencia Government than are English Communists by the legality of the Crown, Lords and Commons. I believe it was a bad Government, rapidly deteriorating. If I were a Spaniard I should be fighting for General Franco. As an Englishman I am not in the predicament of choosing between two evils. I am not a Fascist nor shall I become one unless it were the only alternative to Marxism. It is mischievous to suggest that such a choice is imminent.
 * Authors Take Sides on the Spanish Civil War, ed. Louis Aragon (1937)

 * [1935] is a year which must always be a memory of bitter humiliation to Englishmen of every shade of political colour. Never, since the American War of Independence, has our prestige in the world fallen so low. The lessons of that year have been emphasized often enough; that popular sympathies have no place in diplomacy; that a private, ironically called a "free" press, of the kind which flourishes in France, England and the United States...is the worst possible guide to popular sympathies; that law without force is no law at all; that justice capriciously applied is no justice. A detailed examination of the events of that year reveals every weakness in the present political situation. The results of English diplomacy are already apparent. Italy and Germany who in 1934 seemed irreconcilable opponents are now in close and formidable alliance and England is left to seek her friends among nations distracted to the point of impotence by internal dissension... We all see the result and are appalled; few trouble to probe farther and enquire into the false ideas which have exposed us to shame. We prefer to harbour a grievance and vent our rage in moral lessons to our neighbours, eagerly accepting any extravagant report which will confirm our belief that foreigners as usual have behaved like cads.
 * 'Through European Eyes', The London Mercury and Bookman (June 1937), quoted in The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Donat Gallagher (1983), p. 192

 * I believe we are in danger of a...stultifying use of the word "Fascist"... When rioters are imprisoned it is described as a "Fascist sentence"; the Means Test is Fascist; colonization is Fascist; military discipline is Fascist; patriotism is Fascist; Catholicism is Fascist; Buchmanism is Fascist; the ancient Japanese cult of their Emperor is Fascist; the Galla tribes' ancient detestation of theirs is Fascist; fox-hunting is Fascist... Is it too late to call for order?
 * Letter to The New Statesman (5 March 1938), quoted in The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Donat Gallagher (1983), p. 223

 * I had warned my father that my viva might mean a second. It meant a third, and I was overcome with regret, not, I am ashamed to say, for the giddy nights, but for the sober ones. I had not done much work, but I had done some. Had I known I was only to get a third I would not have wasted my time.
 * "Is Oxford Worth the Money?", Sunday Dispatch, 10 July 1938, page 12. Quoted in "The Sayings of Evelyn Waugh", edited by Donat Gallagher, Duckworth Sayings Series

 * No.3 Commando was very anxious to be chums with Lord Glasgow, so they offered to blow up an old tree stump for him and he was very grateful and said don't spoil the plantation of young trees near it because that is the apple of my eye and they said no of course not we can blow a tree down so it falls on a sixpence and Lord Glasgow said goodness you are clever and he asked them all to luncheon for the great explosion. So Col. Durnford-Slater DSO said to his subaltern, have you put enough explosive in the tree?. Yes, sir, 75lbs. Is that enough? Yes sir I worked it out by mathematics it is exactly right. Well better put a bit more. Very good sir. And when Col. D Slater DSO had had his port he sent for the subaltern and said subaltern better put a bit more explosive in that tree. I don't want to disappoint Lord Glasgow. Very good sir. Then they all went out to see the explosion and Col. DS DSO said you will see that tree fall flat at just the angle where it will hurt no young trees and Lord Glasgow said goodness you are clever. So soon they lit the fuse and waited for the explosion and presently the tree, instead of falling quietly sideways, rose 50 feet into the air taking with it ½ acre of soil and the whole young plantation. And the subaltern said Sir, I made a mistake, it should have been 7½ not 75. Lord Glasgow was so upset he walked in dead silence back to his castle and when they came to the turn of the drive in sight of his castle what should they find but that every pane of glass in the building was broken. So Lord Glasgow gave a little cry and ran to hide his emotions in the lavatory and there when he pulled the plug the entire ceiling, loosened by the explosion, fell on his head. This is quite true.
 * Letter to his wife (31 May 1942)

 * His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
 * As quoted in LIFE magazine (8 April 1946)

 * Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.
 * Reviewing World within World, the autobiography of Stephen Spender, in The Tablet (5 May 1951)

 * Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
 * The Tablet (9 May 1951)

 * Of children as of procreation— the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
 * Letter to Nancy Mitford, May 5, 1954, cited from Mark Amory (ed.) The Letters of Evelyn Waugh (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) p. 423
 * "The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable" is sometimes attributed to Lord Chesterfield (British statesman, diplomat and wit, 1694-1773), but has not been found in his works.

 * One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
 * Diary entry (5 October 1962)

 * I think it great cheek of the Germans to try & teach the rest of the world anything about religion. They should be in perpetual sackcloth & ashes for all their enormities from Luther to Hitler.
 * Letter to Lady Acton on the Second Vatican Council (15 March 1963), quoted in The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (1980), p. 602

 * The Eastern Uniate Churches retain ancient habits of worship which are dear to them, and liturgies which in many cases are unintelligible to the faithful. Is not the time to seek similar privileges for Roman Catholics? Will you promote an appeal to the Holy See for the establishment of a Uniate Latin Church which shall observe all the rites as they existed in the reign of Pius IX?
 * Letter to the Editor of The Tablet (16 March 1963), quoted in A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes: Expanded Edition, ed. Alcuin Reid (2001), p. 47

 * A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it."
 * Diary entry (March 1964), after hearing that doctors had removed a benign tumor from Randolph Churchill, quoted in The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Michael Davie (1976), p. 792

 * When I first came into the Church I was drawn, not by splendid ceremonies but by the spectacle of the priest as a craftsman. He had an important job to do which none but he was qualified for. He and his apprentice stumped up to the altar with their tools and set to work without a glance to those behind them, still less with any intention to make a personal impression on them. "Participate" – the cant word – does not mean to make a row as the Germans suppose. One participates in a work of art when one studies it with reverence and understanding.
 * Diary entry (March 1964), quoted in The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Michael Davie (1976), p. 792

 * I go to Rome for Easter (Grand Hotel) to avoid the horrors of the English liturgy.
 * Letter to Ann Fleming (3 March 1964), quoted in The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (1980), p. 618

 * George Orwell wrote in 1942 at the height of his revulsion from what he regarded as the feeble hypocrisy of English socialist journalism. If he were alive today he would no doubt derive much ironic amusement from the changed position in popular esteem of the Boers in this half-century from that of the gallant little people fighting for their homesteads and way of life to that of the villains of apartheid.
 * 'The Light That Did Not Wholly Fail', The Sunday Times (22 March 1964), quoted in The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Donat Gallagher (1983), p. 623

 * The distinction between Catholicism and Romanità has already been stressed in the American journal Commonweal. Of course it is possible to have Faith without Romanità and to have Romanità without the Faith, but as a matter of recorded history the two have kept very close. "Peter has spoken" remains the guarantee of orthodoxy.
 * Letter to the Editor of The Catholic Herald (7 August 1964), quoted in A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes: Expanded Edition, ed. Alcuin Reid (2001), p. 55

 * Father Sheerin suggests that Catholic conservatism is the product of the defensive policy necessary in the last century against the nationalistic-masonic secularism of the time. I would ask him to consider that the function of the Church in every age has been conservative—to transmit undiminished and uncontaminated the creed inherited from its predecessors.
 * Letter to the Editor of The Catholic Herald (7 August 1964), quoted in A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes: Expanded Edition, ed. Alcuin Reid (2001), p. 56

 * Finally, a word about liturgy. It is natural to the Germans to make a row. The torchlight, vociferous assemblies of the Hitler Youth expressed a national passion. It is well that this should be canalized into the life of the Church. But it is essentially un-English. We seek no "Sieg Heils". We pray in silence. "Participation" means God hearing our voices. Only He knows who is "participating" at Mass. I believe, to compare small things with great, that I "participate" in a work of art when I study it and love it silently. No need to shout. Anyone who has taken part in a play knows that he can rant on the stage with his mind elsewhere. If the Germans want to be noisy, let them. But why should they disturb our devotions?
 * Letter to the Editor of The Catholic Herald (7 August 1964), quoted in A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes: Expanded Edition, ed. Alcuin Reid (2001), p. 57

 * [M]y friends and I are totally at a loss to understand the new form of the Mass... Every attendance at Mass leaves me without comfort or edification. I shall never, pray God, apostatize but church-going is now a bitter trial.
 * Letter to Archbishop Heenan (3 January 1965), quoted in A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes: Expanded Edition, ed. Alcuin Reid (2001), pp. 69, 71

 * Nice to go to Rome. They are destroying all that was superficially attractive about my Church. It is a great sorrow to me and for once undeserved. If you see Cardinal Bea spit in his eye.
 * Letter to Lady Diana Cooper (7 February 1965), quoted in A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes: Expanded Edition, ed. Alcuin Reid (2001), p. 68

 * I find the new liturgy a temptation against Faith, Hope and Charity but I shall never, pray God, apostatise.
 * Letter to Monsignor McReavy (15 April 1965), quoted in The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (1980), p. 631

 * A year in which the process of transforming the liturgy has followed a planned course. Protests avail nothing... More than the aesthetic changes which rob the Church of poetry, mystery and dignity, there are suggested changes in Faith and morals which alarm me. A kind of anti-clericalism is abroad which seeks to reduce the priest's unique sacramental position. The Mass is written of as a "social meal" in which the "people of God" perform the consecration. Pray God I will never apostatize but I can only now go to church as an act of duty and obedience.
 * Diary entry (Easter 1965), quoted in The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Michael Davie (1976), p. 793

 * I have become very old in the last two years. Not diseased but enfeebled. There is nowhere I want to go and nothing I want to do and I am conscious of being an utter bore. The Vatican Council has knocked the guts out of me.
 * Letter to Lady Mosley (9 March 1966), quoted in The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (1980), p. 638

 * Easter used to mean so much to me. Before Pope John and his Council – they destroyed the beauty of the liturgy. I have not yet soaked myself in petrol and gone up in flames, but I now cling to the Faith doggedly without joy. Church going is a pure duty parade. I shall not live to see it restored. It is worse in many countries.
 * Letter to Lady Mosley (30 March 1966), quoted in The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (1980), p. 639

 * I put the words down and push them a bit.
 * As quoted in his obituary in The New York Times (11 April 1966)

 * Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
 * Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

 * Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
 * Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

 * We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them -- a diminishing number in my case.
 * Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) p. 786

 * There is a great deal to be said for the Arts. For one thing they offer the only career in which commercial failure is not necessarily discreditable.
 * [HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?&id=FWxbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22there+is+a+great+deal+to+be+said+for+the+arts+for+one+thing+they+offer+the+only+career+in+which+commercial+failure+is+not+necessarily+discreditable%22&pg=PA9#v=onepage "The Way to Fame"]

Decline and Fall (1928)

 * Please bear in mind throughout that IT IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY.
 * Author's note

 * Mr. Sniggs, the Junior Dean, and Mr. Postlethwaite, the Domestic Bursar, sat alone in Mr. Sniggs's room overlooking the garden quad at Scone College.
 * Opening lines

 * Augustus Fagan, Esquire, Ph.D., Llanabba Castle, N.Wales, requires immediately junior assistant to teach Classics and English to University Standard with subsidiary Mathematics, German and French. Experience essential;first-class games essential...
 * 'Might have been made for you,' said Mr Levy.
 * 'But I don't know a word of German, I've had no experience, I've got no testimonials, and I can't play cricket.'
 * 'It doesn't do to be too modest,' said Mr Levy. 'It's wonderful what one can teach when one tries..' (Part One, Chapter One)

 * 'I couldn't understand why God had made the world at all...' I asked my bishop; he didn't know. He said that he didn't think the point arose as far as my practical duties as a parish priest were concerned..' ( Mr Prendergast, Part One, Chapter IV)

'Oh, I shouldn't try to teach them anything, not just yet, anyway. Just keep them quiet.' (Part One, Chapter V)
 * 'But what am I to teach them?' said Paul in sudden panic.

 * I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
 * Grimes

 * "We class schools, you see, into four grades: Leading School, First-rate School, Good School, and School. Frankly," said Mr Levy, "School is pretty bad..." (Part One, Chapter One)

 * There will be a prize of half a crown for the longest essay, irrespective of any possible merit.

 * Chokey thinks religion is just divine.

 * They should have told me that at the end of that gay journey and flower-strewn path were the hideous lights of home and the voices of children.

 * It's the seed of life we carry about with us like our skeletons, each one of us unconsciously pregnant with desirable villa residences. There's no escape. As individuals we simply do not exist. We are just potential home builders, beavers, and ants. How do we come into being? What is birth? (Part One, Chapter XII)

 * What is this impulse of two people to build their beastly home? It's you & me, unborn, asserting our presence. All we are is a manifestation of the impulse to family life, and if by chance we have escaped the itch ourselves, Nature forces it upon us another way. (Part One, Chapter XII)

 * I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.

 * And the only interest about him arises from the unusual series of events of which his shadow was witness.

 * There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief

 * That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

 * Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

 * I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

 * I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour.

 * I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

 * Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

Vile Bodies (1930)

 * Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs. Ape.
 * Chapter 1

 * Mrs. Ape's famous hymn, There ain't no flies on the Lamb of God.
 * Chapter 1

 * A copy of Dante's Purgatorio excited his especial disgust. "French, eh?" he said. "I guessed as much, and pretty dirty too, I shouldn't wonder. Now just you wait while I look up these here books"—how he said it!—"in my list. Particularly against books the Home Secretary is. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside."
 * Chapter 2

 * All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Black Mischief (1932)

 * "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim. . ." Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away."
 * First lines

 * "You see my adjutant made rather a silly mistake. He hadn't had much truck with boots before and the silly fellow thought they were extra rations. My men ate the whole bag of tricks last night."
 * Chapter 5

A Handful of Dust (1934)

 * "Was anyone hurt?" "No one I am thankful to say," said Mrs. Beaver, "except two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court."
 * First lines

Scoop (1938)

 * While still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, "achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters."
 * Opening lines

 * As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit, or belief, they were called a Republic.

 * Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.
 * An oft-quoted example of William Boot's style. When first mentioned in the novel it is "splashy" and not "plashy", but this is a remembrance of another journalist; when Boot himself quotes it, he has "plashy".

 * "The Beast stands for strong mutually antagonistic governments everywhere," he said. "Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad."
 * A quote from Lord Copper.

 * Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

 * News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

 * He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

 * UNPROCEED LAKUWARD

 * "I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house…"

 * "Up to a point, Lord Copper."
 * Lord Copper, proprietor of the Daily Beast is a man to whom one never says 'No' directly. This is what one says instead.

 * Lord Copper quite often gave banquets; it would be an understatement to say that no one enjoyed them more than the host, for no one else enjoyed them at all, while Lord Copper positively exulted in every minute.

Put Out More Flags (1942)

 * It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
 * Ch. 1: Autumn, § 7

 * The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
 * Ch. 1 : Autumn, § 7

 * So the two of them went to London by the early morning train. 'Let's surprise her,' said Nigel, but Cedric telephoned first, wryly remembering the story of the pedantic adulterer - 'My dear, it is I who am surprised; you are astounded.'
 * Ch. 3 : Spring

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

 * When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.
 * First lines of Prologue

 * "I have been here before," I said; I had been there before; first with Sebastian more than twenty years ago on a cloudless day in June, when the ditches were creamy with meadowsweet and the air heavy with all the scents of summer; it was a day of peculiar splendour, and though I had been there so often, in so many moods, it was to that first visit that my heart returned on this, my latest.
 * First lines part 1, chapter 1

 * But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiousity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.
 * Part 1, Chapter 1

 * To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
 * Part 1, Chapter 1

 * '...Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.'
 * Part 1, Chapter 2

 * How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation. There is no candour in a story of early manhood which leaves out of account the home-sickness for nursery morality, the regrets and resolutions of amendment, the black hours which, like zero on the roulette table, turn up with roughly calculable regularity."
 * The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are
 * Part 1, Chapter 3

 * "It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."
 * Part 1, start of chapter 4

 * O God, make me good, but not yet
 * Part 1, start of chapter 5

 * '...I wonder if you remember the story mummy read us the evening Sebastian first got drunk - I mean the bad evening. "Father Brown" said something like "I caught him" (the thief) "with an unseen hook and and invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread."'
 * This quotes The Queer Feet by G. K. Chesterton

 * Part 2, Chapter
 * It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

 * Part 2, Chapter 3

 * My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time.
 * We possess nothing certainly except the past.
 * Part 3, start of chapter 1

 * 'perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.'
 * She seemed to say "Look at me. I have done my share. I am beautiful. It is something quite out of the ordinary, this beauty of mine. I am made for delight. But what do I get out of it? Where is my reward?"

That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, this magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty."

 * Part 3, Chapter 4

 * I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.
 * Part 3, chapter 5, Lord Marchmain's dying soliloquy.

 * O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
 * '...But I saw today there was one thing unforgivable - like things in the school-room, so bad they were unpunishable, that only mummy could deal with - the bad thing I was on the point of doing, that I'm not quite bad enough to do; to set up a rival good to God's.'
 * Part 3, near end of chapter 5

 * Quomodo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
 * Epilogue

The Loved One (1948)

 * All day the heat had been barely supportable but at evening a breeze arose in the West, blowing from the heart of the setting sun and from the ocean, which lay unseen, unheard behind the scrubby foothills. It shook the rusty fringes of palm-leaf and swelled the dry sounds of summer, the frog-voices, the grating cicadas, and the ever present pulse of music from the neighbouring native huts.
 * First lines

 * You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs—except in England, of course.
 * Chapter 1

 * In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
 * Chapter 9

 * Tomorrow and on every anniversary as long as the Happier Hunting Ground existed a postcard would go to Mr. Joyboy: Your little Aimée is wagging her tail in heaven tonight, thinking of you.
 * Chapter 10

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957)

 * It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.
 * First lines

 * He had no wish to obliterate anything he had written, but he would dearly have liked to revise it, envying painters, who are allowed to return to the same theme time and time again, clarifying and enriching until they have done all they can with it. A novelist is condemned to provide a succession of novelties, new names for characters, new incidents for his plots, new scenery; but, Mr Pinfold maintained, most men harbour the germs of one or two books only; all else is professional trickery of which the most daemonic of the masters — Dickens and Balzac even — were flagrantly guilty.
 * Chapter 1

 * His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz — everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime.
 * Chapter 1

A Little Learning (1964)

 * Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
 * First lines

Misattributed

 * Your action, and your action alone, determines your worth.
 * Johann Gottlieb Fichte in The Vocation of Man [Die Bestimmung des Menschen] (1800), p. 94 : "You are here, not for idle contemplation of yourself, not for brooding over devout sensations — no, for action you are here; action, and action alone, determines your worth." [Nicht zum müßigen Beschauen und Betrachten deiner selbst, oder zum Brüten über andächtigen Empfindungen, — nein, zum Handeln bist du da; dein Handeln und allein dein Handeln bestimmt deinen Werth.]

 * Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
 * Simone Weil, The Pre-War Notebook (1933-1939), published in First and Last Notebooks (1970) edited by Richard Rees

Quotes about Waugh

 * You know what made me want to become a journalist? Reading Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop when I was about eleven. Enough to make anybody want to be a journalist! I absolutely adored it.
 * Nadine Gordimer interview quoted here

 * If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.
 * Clive James, Glued to the Box (1983), p. 233

 * The lady said, "It's no good trying to buy a paper here. That Sir William Beveridge is going to abolish want, so all the papers were sold out". Later that day or the next day I asked him to come to lunch. I was meeting with Evelyn Waugh, an old friend and famous writer. They did not get on at all well. Evelyn Waugh said to him at the end, "How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?" He paused and said, "I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it". Evelyn Waugh said, "I get mine spreading alarm and despondency" — this was in the height of the war — "and I get more satisfaction than you do". So he did not meet with universal acclamation, but nearly everyone admired Beveridge at that time. He was a wonderful man.
 * Lord Longford, recounting a dinner he held during the Second World War.

 * If future generations want to know what the second world war was like for English people, they can safely turn to Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh (1965), the greatest work of a great English novelist.
 * A. J. P. Taylor, English History 1914–1945 (1965), p. 647

 * In fact, the real problem with the thesis of A Genealogy of Morals is that the noble and the aristocrat are just as likely to be stupid as the plebeian. I had noted in my teens that major writers are usually those who have had to struggle against the odds -- to "pull their cart out of the mud," as I put it -- while writers who have had an easy start in life are usually second rate -- or at least, not quite first-rate. Dickens, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Shaw, H. G. Wells, are examples of the first kind; in the twentieth century, John Galsworthy, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, and Samuel Beckett are examples of the second kind. They are far from being mediocre writers; yet they tend to be tinged with a certain pessimism that arises from never having achieved a certain resistance against problems.
 * Colin Wilson in The Books In My Life, p. 188

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Jeremiah Johnson

Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 film about a war veteran who, weary of society, enters the Rocky Mountains around the middle of the 19th century to become a lone mountain man. Yet civilization catches up with him and he finds himself between all fronts...
 * Directed by Sydney Pollack. Written by Edward Anhalt and John Milius, based on the books Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher and Crow Killer by Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker.

A man of peace driven wild!taglines

Jeremiah Johnson

 * [Caleb is crying] Stop that, boy!
 * [Jeremiah and Caleb see a bird flying across the sky] Hawk. Goin' for the Musselshell. Take me a week's ridin', and he'll be there in... hell, he's there already.

Del Gue

 * [to Jeremiah at first meeting, when Del was buried up to his neck in sand] No one's passed in front of me, can't say what's happened behind me.
 * There's a fine horse under me.
 * Ain't that Hatchet Jack's rifle?
 * [to Jeremiah after slipping fresh scalps onto his pack horse in face of approaching Indians] I didn't know they was gonna be Flatheads.
 * [to Jeremiah] You turn down this gift, and they'll slit you, me, Caleb and the horses from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler!
 * He may be a Christian and speak of the bible, but he still an Indian, and his rules is his rules. If you value your hair, you will get married!
 * ''[to Jeremiah at his wedding] You can take her to Fort Hauley and sell her, but you best take her my friend. Maybe she ain't near bad.
 * “I ain’t never seen ’em, but my common sense tells me the Andes is foothills and the Alps is for children to climb. Keep good care of your hair. These here is God’s finest sculpturins and there ain’t no laws for the brave ones. And there ain’t no asylums for the crazy ones. And there ain’t no churches excepting for this right here. And there ain’t no priests excepting the birds. By God I are a mountain man and I’ll live until an arrow or a bullet finds me and then I’ll leave my bones right here on this great map of the magnificent…
 * ''[to Jeremiah amidst his ongoing fight with the Crows] I cannot brag on your choice of campsites.

Hatchet Jack

 * [note on Hatchet Jack] I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do hereby leaveth my bear rifle to whatever finds it, Lord hope it be a white man. It is a good rifle, and killt the bear that killt me. Anyway, I am dead. Yours truly, Hatchet Jack.

Narrator

 * His name was Jeremiah Johnson, and they say he wanted to be a mountain man. The story goes that he was a man of proper wit and adventurous spirit, suited to the mountains. Nobody knows where abouts he come from and don't seem to matter much. He was a young man and ghosty stories about the tall hills didn't scare him none. He was looking for a Hawken gun, .50 caliber or better. He settled for a .30, but damn, it was a genuine Hawken, and you couldn't go no better. Bought him a good horse, and traps, and other truck that went with being a mountain man, and said good-bye to whatever life was down there below.

Dialogue

 * Jeremiah Johnson: Where you headed?
 * Del Gue: Same place you are, Jeremiah: hell, in the end.

 * [Jeremiah and Bear Claw hunt elk]
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Wind's right, but he'll just run soon as we step out of these trees.
 * Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Trick to it. Step out on this side of your horse.
 * Jeremiah Johnson: What if he sees our feet?
 * Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Elk don't know how many feet a horse has! No, you durn fool, slide it up over the saddle.

 * Jeremiah Johnson: Just where is it I could find bear, beaver, and other critters worth cash money when skinned?
 * Robidoux: Ride due west till the sun sets. Turn left at the Rocky Mountains.

 * [Jeremiah and Caleb find Del Gue buried to his neck in sand]
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Are you all right?
 * Del Gue: I got a fine horse under me! [sneezes] Got one of them feathers in my nose.
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Keep sneezing, it'll come out all right. Haven't seen anyone pass by recent, have you?
 * Del Gue: Nobody's gone in front of me. Can't say what's happened behind me, though.
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Indians put you here?
 * Del Gue: T'weren't Mormons! A chief, name of Mad Wolf. Nice fella, don't talk a hell of a lot. Say, you wouldn't have an extra hat on you, would you? Shade's getting' scarce in these parts.
 * Jeremiah Johnson: What'd you shave your head for?
 * Del Gue: Mad Wolf figures like every other Indian I know, says this scalp ain't fit for no decent man's lodgepole. Ain't the first time I've protected my head in such a way. Name's Del Gue, with an "e".

 * [Bear Claw and Jeremiah Johnson meet again after not seeing each other for a long time.]
 * Bear Claw: What's on the spit?
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Grown particular?
 * Bear Claw: Not about feedin' just the company I keep. [Jeremiah tosses him a rabbits leg] Thank you, kindly.
 * Bear Claw: You've come far, pilgrim.
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Feels like far.
 * Bear Claw: Were it worth the trouble?
 * Jeremiah Johnson: [painfully] Ah, what trouble?
 * Bear Claw: You cook good rabbit pilgrim. Cold up here.
 * Jeremiah Johnson: What brings you up so high?
 * Bear Claw: Grizz!
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Uh, Grizz.
 * Bear Claw: Avalanche took the cabin, lost my mule. We swum out of it. No matter, there weren't no Grizz left anyway.
 * Jeremiah Johnson: You wouldn't happen to know what month of the year it is?
 * Bear Claw: Why no, I truly wouldn't. I'm sorry, pilgrim. Winter's a long time going?
 * Jeremiah Johnson: [exhausted] Ah.
 * Bear Claw: Stays long this high.
 * Jeremiah Johnson: March. Maybe, April.
 * Bear Claw: March maybe. I don't believe April. [rising to depart] March is a green muddy month down below, some folks like it, FARMERS mostly. You've done well to keep so much hair when so many's after it.  I hope that you fare well.

 * Jeremiah Johnson: You will do well, Del. You will do well, if you don't get in too much trouble with all that hair.
 * Del Gue: Ain't this somethin'? I told my pap and mam I was coming to the mountains to trap and be a mountain man. Acted like they was gut-shot. Says, "son, make your life go here. Here's where the peoples is. Them mountains is for animals and savages." I said, "Mother Gue, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world." And by God I was right.

 * Del Gue: I ain't never seen 'em, but my common sense tells me the Andes is foothills, and the Alps is for children to climb! Keep good care of your hair! These here is God's finest scupturings! And there ain't no laws for the brave ones! And there ain't no asylums for the crazy ones! And there ain't no churches, except for this right here! And there ain't no priests excepting the birds. By God, I are a mountain man, and I'll live 'til an arrow or a bullet finds me. And then I'll leave my bones on this great map of the magnificent . ..

 * Del Gue: Which way you headed, Jeremiah?
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Canada, maybe. I hear there is land there a man has never seen.
 * Del Gue: Well, keep your nose in the wind, and your eyes along the skyline.
 * Jeremiah Johnson: I will do that, Del Gue.

 * Jeremiah Johnson: Who are they?
 * Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Probably Crow. If'n they catch us, they'll steal our horses.
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Why?
 * Bear Claw Chris Lapp: It's their territory, they figure we're tresspassin'.
 * [an arrow flies by Bear Claw's head and sticks in a tree]
 * Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Yep, Crow. A fella by the name of Paints-His-Shirt-Red. That's his sign. Just stand still.
 * [Paints His Shirt Red approaches. Bear Claw pulls arrow from tree and hands it back]

 * [Jeremiah and Del have killed the Indians that stole Del's horse and gear]
 * Del Gue: Don't you want any of these?
 * Jeremiah Johnson: What?
 * Del Gue: Scalps!
 * Jeremiah Johnson: [Shaken by the incident] No.
 * Del Gue: Well, Mother Gue never raised such a foolish child!
 * [Pulls his knife and begins scalping the Indians]

 * [Del and Jeremiah have run into a Flathead scouting party]
 * Del Gue: He wants to know if you are the great warrior who avenges the crazy women that lives in the Wolf Tail Valley. She's big medicine. You are too, if you be that man.
 * Jeremiah Johnson: [the Indian begins talking in a very loud voice] What's he shoutin' for?
 * Del Gue: Scared of ya.

 * [Jeremiah finds Del Gue buried in the sand]
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Indians put you here?
 * Del Gue: Tweren't Mormons! Chief name of Mad Wolf; nice enough fellow, don't talk a hell of a lot.
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Why'd you shave your head?
 * Del Gue: Mad wolf, like most Indians I know, figures this scalp ain't fit for no descent man's lodge pole; It's not the first time I've saved my head in such a manner. Name's Del Gue. With an E.

 * Jeremiah Johnson: Y'ever get lonesome?
 * Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Fer what?
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Woman?
 * Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Full time night woman? I never could find no tracks on a woman's heart. I packed me a squaw for ten year, Pilgrim. Cheyenne, she were, and the meanest bitch that ever balled for beads. I lodge-poled her at Deadwood Creek, and traded her for a Hawken gun. But don't get me wrong; I loves the womens, I surely do. But I swear, a woman's breast is the hardest rock that the Almighty ever made on this earth, and I can find no sign on it. Now these coals will simmer till sunrise. You best go do likewise.
 * [Hours later, Jeremiah stirred out of the sack almost afire]
 * Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Didn't put enough dirt down. Saw it right off.

 * Del Gue: Jeremiah, maybe you best go down to a town, get outta these mountains.
 * Jeremiah Johnson: I've been to a town Del.

 * Bear Claw Chris Lapp: You've come far pilgrim.
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Feels like far.
 * Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Were it worth the trouble?
 * Jeremiah Johnson: What trouble?

 * Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Can you skin Griz, pilgrim?
 * Jeremiah Johnson: I can skin most anything.
 * Bear Claw Chris Lapp: You sure are cocky for a starvin' pilgrim.
 * Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Well there she be. Go inside get yourself warm, get yourself something to eat. I've got a chore to finish. Now boy, are you sure that you can skin Griz?
 * Jeremiah Johnson: I can skin'em as fast as you can catch'em.
 * [Bear Claw runs through the cabin with a huge Grizzly Bear close behind and jumps out the back window.]
 * Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Skin that pilgrim, and I'll get you another!

 * [Jeremiah has just killed a Crow warrior who has been stalking him]
 * Del Gue: Is it always like this? One at the time?
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Yep.
 * Del Gue: Lucky they were Crow. Apache would have sent fifty at once.

 * [Jeremiah is being forced by the Flathead chief to marry an Indian girl]
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Del Gue, I don't think this is a good idea.
 * Del Gue: He may be a Christian and read the bible, but he's still an Indian and his rules is his rules. If you value your hair, you will get married! Now, when this is over you can take her to Fort Hawley and sell her, but you best take her my friend. Besides, maybe she ain't near bad.
 * [after Jeremiah is introduced to The Swan by Two Tongues Lebeaux] Maybe you need her?
 * Del Gue: You turn this down, and they'll slit you, me, Caleb and the horses from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler.

 * [Bear Claw is talking to Paints-his-Shirt in Crow]
 * Jeremiah Johnson: You understand what he's sayin'?
 * Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Paints-His-Shirt speaks English, he just does this to aggravate me.

 * Jeremiah Johnson: Ain't that hair I see on your head, Del?
 * Del Gue: I figured that when I depart this life I'd like to leave something behind even if just to be remembered on some man's lodge pole.
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Sound wisdom.

 * Del Gue: Ain't that Hatchet Jack's rifle?
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Yep.
 * Del Gue: How did you get it?
 * Jeremiah Johnson: Found him froze to a tree.
 * Del Gue: Damn! Hatchet Jack was a wild one. He was livin' two years up in in a cave on the Musselshell with a female panther. She never did get used to him.

Taglines

 * A man of peace driven wild!

 * The man who became a legend. The film destined to be a classic!

 * His Mountain. His Peace. His Great Hunts. His Young Bride. With All That, It Should Have Been Different.

 * Some say he's dead...some say he never will be.

Cast

 * Robert Redford - Jeremiah Johnson
 * Will Geer - Bear Claw Chris Lapp
 * Stefan Gierasch - Del Gue
 * Delle Bolton - Swan
 * Josh Albee - Caleb
 * Joaquín Martínez - Paints His Shirt Red
 * Allyn Ann McLerie - the Crazy Woman
 * Paul Benedict - Reverend Lindquist
 * Jack Colvin - Lieutenant Mulvey
 * Matt Clark - Qualen
 * Richard Angarola - Chief Two-Tongues Lebreaux
 * Charles Tyner - Robidoux

title: Jeremiah Johnson


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The Razor's Edge (1984 film)

The Razor's Edge is a 1984 romantic drama film about an American army ambulance driver/medic traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life.
 * Directed by John Byrum. Written by John Byrum and Bill Murray, based upon the novel of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham.

The story of one man's search for himself. (tagline)

Larry Darrell

 * [of the man who just died saving his life] He was a slob. Did you ever see him eat? Starving children could fill their bellies on the food that ended up in his beard and on his clothes. Dogs would gather to watch him eat. I've never understood gluttony, but I hate it. I hated that about you. He enjoyed disgusting people, being disgusting, the thrill of offending people and making them uncomfortable. It was despicable. You will not be missed.
 * It's very easy to love someone like you.
 * To Sophie
 * This isn't the old Mister Sunshine.
 * It's easy to be a holy man on top of a mountain.
 * [after Sophie's murder] When Piedmont died, I had to pay him back for my life. I found out there's another debt to pay — for the privilege of being alive. I thought Sophie was my reward for trying to live a good life. Uh uh. There is no payoff — not now.

Other

 * Tibetan Monk: The pathway to salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.
 * Mackenzie: I never lend books to coal miners.

Quotes about The Razor's Edge

 * I don't know what my fans are going to think. It's definitely not what they're used to from me.
 * Bill Murray, in Stills Magazine (1984)
 * I think The Razor's Edge is a pretty good movie. But at the time, it was just as reviled as any other comedian doing a serious thing now. Like The Majestic [with Jim Carrey], movies where comedians go straight, people don't like them. It angers people, like you're taking something away from them. That's the response I got. I thought, "Well, aren't we all bigger than that?" I wasn't shocked by it, but I thought that the professional critics would be able to say, "OK, we shouldn't rule this out, because the guy normally does other stuff." Unless it's really despicable, then you have to just jump with both feet on the neck.
 * Bill Murray, in Rolling Stone Issue 903 (22 August 2002)

Tagline

 * The story of one man's search for himself.

Cast

 * Bill Murray - Larry Darrell
 * Theresa Russell - Sophie MacDonald
 * Catherine Hicks - Isabel Bradley
 * Denholm Elliott - Elliott Templeton
 * James Keach - Gray Maturin
 * Peter Vaughan - Mackenzie
 * Brian Doyle-Murray - Piedmont

title: The Razor's Edge (1984 film)


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Ashraf Dehghani

Ashraf Dehghani (born 1948) is a well-known Iranian female revolutionary and member of the Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas.

Sourced

 * A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.
 * Torture and Resistance in Iran, 1971

 * The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.
 * Torture and Resistance in Iran, 1971

 * For a while longer you may be able to carry on with your plundering and murderous crimes, but you will not escape your ultimate fate. We shall exhaust and then destroy you in a difficult and prolonged battle. When one of us falls, there are tens of others who will rise. Our death is no ordinary death and our life no ordinary life.
 * Torture and Resistance in Iran, 1971

 * Your defeat is not only a reality, which has been historically proven time and again. It can also be seen in your helplessness and your inability to suppress the movement, in your desperate conduct when faced with our guerrillas and the vanguard of the people.
 * Torture and Resistance in Iran, 1971
 * This quote was about the regime of the Shah, who was forced to flee Iran in 1979

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Samir Geagea

Samir Geagea (born 25 October 1952) is a Lebanese politician. The leader of the Lebanese Forces Party, he was released from 11 years in solitary confinement on 26 July 2005. Geagea was however given a pardon and not declared innocent. He still plays a major role on the Christian political scene in Lebanon today.

Quotes

 * Lebanon is our country, and in it we are staying (as a minority christians).
 * March 1989, addressing crowds in ain el remeneh.

 * I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.
 * November 2004, speaking to a delegation from the Human Rights Committee of the Lebanese Parliament, quoted in "Samir Geagea will be out of Jail this weekend" in Ya Libnan (18 July 2005)

 * You have come out of the big prison which you had been put in and you have taken me out with the same act from the small prison which I had been put in.
 * Upon being released from Yarze prison, as quoted in an Associated Press report "Ex-Christian Warlord Released in Lebanon" by Zeina Karam (26 July 2005)
 * Variant translation: Now that you (Lebanese people) have come out of the great prison to which you were confined, you have released me from the small prison in which I was put.
 * Full text of speech made on his release from prison (26 July 2005)

 * I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But I endured my hardships because I was merely living my convictions.
 * On his release from prison, quoted in "Samir, Sitrida Geagea Airborne for Month-Long Recuperation Abroad" at Lebanese Forces.com (26 July 2005)

 * They were long, dark, black years.
 * As quoted in "Lebanese ex-warlord is released" in BBC News (26 July 2005)

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