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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.
~ Ariel Sharon
A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
~ Jessica Savitch
She sings a dark destructive song.
~ Euripides
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~ Euripides
There's a lot of wine involved and creeping off into corners with men. Meanwhile they call themselves a prayer group! Obviously it's just sex. I've put most of them in jail.
~ Euripides
Ah! there is naught more serviceable to mankind than a prudent distrust.
~ Euripides
And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.
~ Euripides
There is strange tyranny in the god who sent Against your house this cruel punishment.
~ Euripides
If your enemy is a man of honour (...), yield to him; you may touch his heart, Perhaps win generous terms. If he´s a rat - beware!
~ Euripides
Tú, Troya, patria mía, no serás ya contada entre las ciudades jamás conquistadas.
~ Euripides
Dream not thou that force is power; Nor, if thou hast a thought, and that thought sour And sick, oh, dream not thought is wisdom!
~ Euripides
CHOR. It is not right to speak well, where the deeds are not glorious; for this is not honorable, but galling to justice.
~ Euripides
Hector. To think thus pleasures thee? Well, have it thus.
~ Euripides
Cadmus: Shall we alone of all the city dance in Bacchus' honor? Teiresias: Yea, for we alone are wise, the rest are mad.
~ Euripides
I think that Fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his gods strive for him equally.
~ Euripides
MEN. For thou thinkest inconsistently, now one thing, before another, another thing presently. AG. Well hast thou talked evil. Hateful is a too clever tongue. [20]
~ Euripides
Not a frog, I hope?" he asked…She shook her head. "No. And if it was I wouldn't kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he'd turn into a frog, but not the other way around.
~ Eva Ibbotson
she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?
~ Evelyn Waugh
Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.
~ Evelyn Waugh
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
~ Evelyn Waugh
the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Above all the babble of her age and ours, she makes one blunt assertion. And there alone lies Hope.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I aches," said Mrs. Jackson with simple dignity. "I aches terrible all round the sit-upon. It's the damp.
~ Evelyn Waugh