Quotable Quotes

Quotable Quotes from my readings, regularly updated

Women

The man who gets on best with women is the one who knows best how to get on without them. Baudelaire.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. Compton Mackenzie, born 1883. English playwright and novelist.

I love thee like pudding; if thou wert pie, I'd eat thee. John Ray, 1627-1705. English chronicler.

Nothing sharpens the wits like promiscuous flirtation. George Moore, Irish novelist, art critic and essayist.

The law

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832.

Politics and Society

Modern lives are being remorselessly crushed beneath the blind executive rump; its twin buttocks are management and accountancy, between which escapes the thin mephitic steam of marketing. Michael Bywater Third Oldie Annual 1997.

A good many people fret themselves about the rather improbable speculation that the earth may be blown asunder by nuclear weapons. The grimmer and more immediate prospect is that men and women may be reduced to a sub-human state through limitless indulgence in their own vices – with ruinous consequences to society. Russell Kirk.

Whole tracts of our religion are bare of spiritual passion, or spiritual depth. Christianity speaks the language of our humane civilisation; it does not speak the language of Christ. The age, and much of the Church, believes in civilisation and is interested in the Gospel, instead of believing in the Gosepl and being interested in civilisation. P T Forsyth.

Morality

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue. John Adams.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands. G K Chesterton.

When principles that run against against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith. Abraham Kuyper.