Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

There was definitely frustration about Henri's non-appearance. We weren't happy about it.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness.

Deprive the average human being of his life-lie, and you rob him of his happiness.

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your ''emancipation.'' You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields -- discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West -- superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

Castles in the air - -they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.

Don't use that foreign word ''ideals.'' We have that excellent native word ''lies.''

You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- these are the pillars of society.

In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Do not use that foreign word "ideals". We have that excellent native word "lies".

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem Bits and pieces trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth.