All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“The Second Sexual Revolution”
“Teachers: The Essence of the Centuries”
“Durants on History from the Ages, with Love,”
“The Gentle Philosopher”
“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves ; let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say. We Have a Right To Be Happy Today , commencement address at the Webb School of Claremont, California”
“What is Civilization?”
“The invention and spread of contraceptives is the proximate cause of our changing morals . The old moral code restricted sexual experience to marriage, because copulation could not be effectively separated from parentage, and parentage could be made responsible only through marriage. But to”
“The rise of philosophy, then, often heralds the decay of a civilization. Speculation begins with nature and begets naturalism; it passes to man”
“Science tells us how to heal and how to kill ; it reduces the death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war ; but only wisdom”
“Man was not made to sweat.”
“Setting: Chickasaw land; fictional Yoknapatawpha County , based on Lafayette County, Mississippi . Author nationality: American. First published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( Curtis Publishing Company ).”
“For the holy are susceptible too to evil, even as you and I, signori; they too are helpless before sin without God's aid... and the holy can be fooled by sin as quickly as you or I, signori. Quicker, because they are holy. "Mistral"”
“Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be. "The Bear" in The Saturday Evening Post”
“It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books; I wish I had enough sense to see ahead thirty years ago, and like some of the Elizabethans, not signed them. It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died. Letter to Malcolm Cowley (February 11, 1949), quoted in William Faulkner: A Critical Essay (1970) by Martin Jarrett”
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this ... as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth; in one generation all the Napoleons and Hitlers and Caesars and Mussolinis and Stalins and all the other tyrants who want power and aggrandizement, and the simple politicians and time”
“Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat. On declining invitation to White House dinner honoring Nobel laureates, as quoted in Life magazine”
“Faulkner Without Fanfare”
“Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. As quoted in the National Observer”
“started with distillation.”
“The Merry Wives of Windsor”
“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator. The Rape of Lucrece (1594).”
“Time 's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light . The Rape of Lucrece .”
“That deep torture may be called a hell, When more is felt than one hath power to tell. The Rape of Lucrece .”
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care The Passionate Pilgrim : A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.”
“I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture Shakespeare's will”
“Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare To digg the dust encloased heare Blese be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that moves my bones Shakespeare's epitaph”
“Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. Richard, Act I, scene i.”
“Off with his head! Richard, Act III, scene iv.”
“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! Richard, Act V, scene iv.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”