There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC
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Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
—Philip Sidney, 1582Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
—Simon Hoggart, 1990An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
—Shirley Chisholm, 1970There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002