#is

You may weep more if you wish it," he announced, feeling exceedingly generous. ↗

Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's breadth between the point at which the reader delightfully recognizes is as a revealing habit of speech, and the point at which its iteration begin to weary him. ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#speech #art

Kill all the prisoners, because they’re costing us too much money. Wait! No, kill all the politicians, because they’re spending too much money. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#kill #money #politicians #politics #prisoners

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#angry #arrested #because #before #everyone

The public is wiser than the wisest critic. ↗

— George Bancroft

#public #than #wiser #wisest

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation. ↗

— John Bunyan

#idolatry #opinions #shame #wisdom #art

If you can imagine a thing, then it has already existed, somewhere, somewhen, somehow. ↗

— Toba Beta

#imagination #imagination

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#forgetting #heroes #news #our #relish

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed. ↗

— Joss Stone

#british #british press #followed #me #press

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel. ↗