Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

Charles Caleb Colton

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

Charles Caleb Colton

I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Charles Caleb Colton

By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

China Mieville

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

Charles Caleb Colton

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

Benjamin Franklin

When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

Christopher Marlowe

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

George Herbert

Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]

Horace

A crafty knave needs no broker.

Giacomo Casanova

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Harold Bloom

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

George Herbert

When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.

Jonathan Swift

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

Alan Watts

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

Alan Watts

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Alan Rickman

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

Edward James Olmos

When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub

David Tudor

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

David Duchovny

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Ben Stiller

Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before.

Barney Frank

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.