#p

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#hurt #into #intoxication #loophole #men

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself . ↗

— Anne Bronte

#deprived #girl #guard #her #herself

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else. ↗

— Anne Bronte

#children #courted #dogs #else #everybody

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#around #cheerfulness #depends #fully #matter

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#bad one #face #good #good heart #heart

I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their friend, they don't want to be threatened by you, you've got to be warm, you've got to be not too smart, not too pretty, not too anything. ↗

— Kelly Brook

#because #better #friend #got #i

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? ↗

— Peter Brook

#directing #earth #finding #icon #jesus

The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and what's morally right or ethically right. ↗

— Meredith Brooks

#being #decisions #ethically #everybody #everything

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. ↗

— Rupert Brooke

#book #cannot #compared #early #get

Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it. ↗

— Albert Brooks

#comfortably #die #dog #hot #hot dog