#convenient

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#feminine #invention #masculine #nothing #virtue

Why look'e, young gentleman," said Toby, "when a man keeps himself so very ex-clusive as I have done, and by that means has a snug house over his head with nobody a-prying and smelling about it, it's rather a starling thing to have the honour of a wisit from a young gentleman (however respectable and pleasant a person he may be to play cards with at conweniency) circumstanced as you are. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#inconvenient #irksome #respect

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#forgotten #him #nobody #remember

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. ↗

— Philip Caputo

#escaping #man #means #most #ordinary

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. ↗

— Randolph Bourne

#carving #conspiracy #convenient #into #kind

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#beginnings #conveniently #culture #dated #first

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. ↗

— Richard Schickel

#become #characters #concerned #decoration #exercises

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#both #convenient #dispense #doubt #equally

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#convenient #people #repent #seldom #then

We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#convenient #else #half #having #lazy