Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

Francis Quarles

Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.

Ian Holloway

I feel like I've been on EastEnders all my life and now I'm playing King Lear.

Ian MacKaye

I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street. I have a memory of walking down the street with buildings smoldering, and soldiers and cops everywhere. Anyways, it was a church that really taught me the things I needed to learn to not go to church. But I think it is a church that does great work, I went to a wedding there three days ago.

Ian Mcewan

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ...

Ian Hislop

You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz

Ian Fleming

I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace

Hugh Leonard

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

Hugh Laurie

I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.

Hugh Jackman

My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.

Horatio Nelson

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.

Horatio Nelson

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

Horace Walpole

When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora's box. "What! all!" said the Prince. "Yes, all." "No," said the Prince; "curiosity must have been without.

Horace Walpole

[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.

Horace

If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.

Horace Mann

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

Homer

I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf ... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

Homer

I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!

Homer

Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!

Homer

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim—the greater man.

Homer

Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

Homer

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

Homer

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

Homer

Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme.

Homer

The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.

If he wins in November, he will be King Kong,

Gloria Steinem

People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.

J. K. Rowling

Be good now, Potty...Weasel King...

Georg Brandes

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.