#ares

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. ↗

— Albert Camus

#cost #nothing #passion #spares #taste

I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical. ↗

— Barbara Feldon

#hand #i #interests #like #lovely

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. ↗

— George Carlin

#bathroom #closest #death #dinner #dinner party

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#clearer #duty #lies #nearest #second

Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#her #hoped #horses #i #majesty

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#asked #books #capacity #dearest #editorial

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#decides #how #loses #many #someone

She disliked him more for having mastered her inner will. How dared he say that he would love her still, even though she shook him off with contempt? She wished she had spoken more - stronger. Sharp, decisive speeches came thronging to her mind, now that it was too late to utter them. The deep impression made by the interview was like that of a horror in a dream; that will not leave the room although we waken up, and rub our eyes, and force a stiff rigid smile upon our lips. It is there - there, cowering and gibbering, with fixed ghastly eyes, in some corner of the chamber, listening to hear whether we dare to breathe of its presence to anyone. And we dare not; poor cowards that we are! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#nightmares #unrequited-love #dreams

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. ↗

— Edward Coke

#innocent #spares #threatens #who

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bitterest #closet #courage #dare #enemy