Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
—Laurie Colwin, 1978Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.
—Rock Hudson, 1982The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things, and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774