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british-author disgrace general heart human interest particular subject totally trifle
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable. Thomas Day
british-author england gentleman large lived name western whose
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
british-author luxuries poor
We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.
british-author lest shame triumph
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
british-author people truth
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre. Jackie Collins
british-author forget known leave meeting officially six
I will never forget meeting Suu Kyi in Rangoon - now officially known as Yangon - some six years ago, when she was still able to leave her house. Timothy Garton Ash
british-author enjoyed imagination mysteries relief
I enjoyed writing mysteries out of my imagination as a relief from all that research, and also because I could write them while traveling. Antonia Fraser
british-author cautious century taught work
If the 20th century taught us anything, it is to be cautious about the work impossible.
british-author foreign gifts humour perish
Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. Virginia Woolf
greatness
There is greatness in everyone. Charlie Chaplin
greatness quality individual
The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual. Charles Sumner
greatness
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. Charles de Gaulle
greatness france
France cannot be France without greatness.
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
jokes angry
I just often find myself getting shrill, angry and the jokes get more incredulous. David Cross
jokes gloom
A joke a day keeps the gloom away! Cesar Romero
jokes
I always thought of Levittown as a joke. Bill Griffith
jokes
I'm not much of a joke writer. Ben Falcone
jokes i-can
I can't find someone funny whom I don't like. Hitler told great jokes. I didn't find it funny at all. Ricky Gervais
jokes
I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke. Billie Joe Armstrong
jokes
Everyone just wants to hear the exact jokes that apply to them and want to - everyone wants a perfectly crafted joke for them.
jokes listens
She jokes around with you and listens to your ideas.
jokes unless
I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes. Michael Lehmann
strain
So it is going to put a lot of strain on my back. David Beckham
strain
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things. Winston Churchill
strain stress takes water
It just takes a lot of the stress and strain off the water supply.
strain
marriage is a great strain upon love. Myrtle Reed
taste relief huge
When you taste super-success after tasting super-failure, there is huge relief. Akshay Kumar
taste vices worst
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. Edith Sitwell
taste consonants
... naturalness is not always consonant with taste. Edith Wharton
taste willing
I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste. David Tudor
taste truth-is humans
Truth is disputable, not human taste. David Hume
taste painting study
Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.
taste film problem
The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films. Ben Wheatley
taste meat dams
I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good! Denis Leary
taste host handshake
The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast Benjamin Franklin