#mo

I was a monster, a problem child. ↗

— Shaun White

#i #monster #problem

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#life

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. ↗

— Rebecca West

#being #horse #like #motherhood #own

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself. ↗

— Rebecca West

#humanity #itself #more #never #than

Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast. ↗

— John Wilmot

#differs #man #more #than

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#alone #ambition #best #employed #enjoyed

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up. ↗

— Mary Whitehouse

#any #being #could #ever #further

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive. ↗

— Mary Whitehouse

#anyone #anything #country #gave #greene

I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time. ↗

— William Whitelaw

#i #i am #listening #mouth #thermometer

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often. ↗

— Mae West

#more #often #shocked #should #those