#ty

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong. ↗

— Shirley Williams

#beliefs #belong #democratic #goes #i

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#everyday-objects #great-gatsby #great-prose #prose #beauty

I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green. ↗

— Emilia Clarke

#being #calm #come #countryside #find

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable. ↗

— Paul Claudel

#either #everything #expression #happens #meaning

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect. ↗

— William Thomas Stead

#effect #every #individual #power #powerless

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday. ↗

— John Clayton

#christmas #holiday #man-made #much #pretty

I just told them that dear Uncle Silas has gone away on a long journey," she said. "They're such mites, you know, and I've never let them hear about Death, or have ugly toys or stories about ogres and things. I mean, I do frightfully believe in keeping their little minds free from everything but happy, beautiful things, don't you? ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#beauty

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#become #collective #consumed #democrats #labour

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#everything #i #know #learned #thirty

We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity. ↗

— Clark M. Clifford

#almost #ancient #barbaric #dance #going