#pens

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#because #been #compensated #does #healed

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears by voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#behold #come #door #eat #hears

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#elections #fighting #indispensable #more #part

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#fire #hammer #happens #i #me

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#flesh #happens #like #lovers #made

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#indispensable #little #men #our #pretty

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#disbelief #faith #moment #poetic #suspension

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#cold #common #cozy #expensive #far

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#cannot #costly #depends #enterprising #expensive

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them? ↗

— Maya Banks

#humour #romance #romantic-suspense #funny