He was the worst kind of Christian, Philip realized: he embraced all of the negatives, enforced every proscription, insisted on all forms of denial, and demanded strict punishment for every offence; y...
His talent was to express his readers’ most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.
She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly.
The Führer's judgement will be proved right - again.''Of course it will, Erik.''He has never yet been wrong!''A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-storey building, and as he f...
When you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement.
Don’t worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. She
He was looking forward eagerly to seeing her again. He had coped perfectly well on his own, of course, but it was very reassuring to have someone in your life who was always ready to fight for you, an...
He was seething inside with a new emotion. Nothing seemed very important anymore except the Princess. He was single-minded about her. He was enchanted. He was possessed. He was in love.
Lenin’s idea of relaxation was to sit down with a foreign-language dictionary for an hour or two.
Men were the only animals that slaughtered their own kind by the million, and turned the landscape into a waste of shell craters and barbed wire. Perhaps the human race would wipe itself out completel...
When people are perfectly polite, it usually means they don't really care. A little awkwardness is more sincere.
Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.
You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me, she said in a matter-of-fact tone. And when you've lost everything- Her facade began to crumble, and her voice broke, but she made herself ca...
Man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-story building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: ‘So far, so good.
It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a...
It's like knowing your way through the forest. You don't keep the whole forest in your mind, but wherever you are, you know where to go next.
Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if he tried to make it do somethi...
Mam kissed Ethel and said: I'm glad to see you settled at last, anyway, That word ANYWAY carried a lot of baggage, Ethel thought. It meant: Congratulations, even though you're a fallen woman, and you'...
She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought solitude here. She yearned to kiss him, and she saw the answering...
All men make mistakes,’ said the ancient Greek Sophocles. ‘But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only sin is pride.
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