I have tamed men of iron in my day, shall I not easily crush these men of butter?
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DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands. FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.
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With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
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But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.
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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
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This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody.
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Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or the other! ... and inventors, the worst kind of jobholder! ... they stand condemned! ... the writer who doesn't pimp along, peacefully plagiarizing, who doesn't pump out the pop stuff, he's had it! ... everybody hates him!
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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
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We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.
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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
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There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.
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Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we can be on the pitch with any team in the world and think we can win.
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The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
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When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.
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Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
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The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.
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My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking .
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It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
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The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
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Miranda. My husband, then? Ferdinand. Ay, with a heart as willing...
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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
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The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church.
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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
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If all the right people say, 'Go here', then of course they get a huge audience, but that audience has no loyalty, and they are quickly out-cooled by someone else.
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When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity, which delights you and makes you giddy.
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Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish.
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