#tru

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#art #be original #become #been #before

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#amateur #british #brought #certainly #cricket

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#come #country #custodians #driven #english

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#i #involved #like #lord #out

Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#disaster #extremists #hands #islamic #mass

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#belong #colors #divine #done #hundred

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#faults #feel #grow #instrument #judge

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#childish #children #does #finds #make

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#class #class struggle #democracy #external #international

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#eternal #eternal love #love #only #righteousness