All Quotes
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“I was present, myself, at the execution of Courvoisier . I was, purposely, on the spot, from midnight of the night before; and was a near witness of the whole process of the building of the scaffold, the gathering of the crowd, the gradual swelling of the concourse with the coming”
“On the public execution on 6 July 1840 of the valet François Benjamin Courvoisier , who had murdered his employer Lord William Russell .”
“La difficulté d'écrire l'anglais m'est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l'on pouvait toujours écrire cette belle langue de France! The difficulty of writing English is most tiresome to me. My God! If only we could write this beautiful language of France at all times!”
“I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends! In response to George Henry Lewes (LL, II, v, 272); Miriam Farris Allott (1974), The Brontës, the critical heritage, page 160;”
“I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance”
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Carolyn Warner (1992), page 135”
“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? Jane Eyre”
“If you like poetry let it be first”
“The letters of Charlotte Brontë (edited by Margaret Smith), Vol. I: 1829”
“real experience is perennially interesting, and to all men.”
“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. 15 January, 1849. As quoted in Elizabeth Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë (1870), p. 285”
“Yesterday I went for the second time to the Crystal Palace. We remained in it about three hours, and I must say I was more struck with it on this occasion than at my first visit. It is a wonderful place”
“I have twice seen Macready act; once in Macbeth and once in Othello . I astounded a dinner”
“I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people. As quoted in Becoming Che : Guevara's Second and Final Trip through Latin America (2005) by Carlos "Calica" Ferrer, as translated by Sarah L. Smith (2006), p. 170”
“I don't think you and I are very closely related, however, if you are capable of trembling with indignation each time that an injustice is committed anywhere in the world, we are comrades , and that is more important. Letter to María Rosario Guevara, 20 February 1964. Quoted in Guerrillas in Power: The Course of the Cuban Revolution (1971) by K. S. Karol”
“In order to know about the illnesses of society , you have to know what men are suffering from, how they suffer. As quoted in Testimonies About Che (2006) by Marta Rojas, p. 85”
“Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface. As quoted in Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (2010) by John Lee Anderson, p. 178”
“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. As quoted in Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005) by Allan Zullo, p. 36”
“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. It exists when people liberate themselves. Statement in Mexico (1958); as quoted in Kaplan AP World History 2005 (2004) edited by the Kaplan staff, p. 240”
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. Intercontinental Press (Vol. 3 January”
“Silence is argument carried out by other means. As quoted in Secrets to a Richer Life: Illuminating Wisdom from the Human Family on the 12 Ultimate Questions (2005) by Earl Ernest Guile”
“Words that do not match deeds are unimportant. As quoted in Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs, Volume 1 (2009) by Iam A. Freeman”
“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel! As quoted in An American Savage (2003) by J. Flash (Jeff Flashinski), p. 144”
“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. Arrow of God (1988)”
“For an African writing in English is not without its serious setbacks. He often finds himself describing situations or modes of thought which have no direct equivalent in the English way of life. Caught in that situation he can do one of two things. He can try and contain what he wants to say within the limits of conventional English or he can try to push back those limits to accommodate his ideas … I submit that those who can do the work of extending the frontiers of English so as to accommodate African thought-patterns must do it through their mastery of English and not out of innocence. Quoted by Kalu Ogbaa, Understanding Things Fall Apart (1999), Greenwood Press, ISBN 978-0-313-30294-7.”
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”
“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”
“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”
“Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Moving Quotes from Chinua Achebe”