Quotes

Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.

—Edith Hamilton, 1930

Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.

—W.B. Yeats, 1937

New things are always ugly.

—Willa Cather, 1921

A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 109

War is fear cloaked in courage.

—William Westmoreland, 1966

One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.

—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720

In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.

—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

—Winston Churchill, 1945

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

—Colette, 1944

Nature contains no one constant form.

—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770

In every ill turn of fortune, the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.

—Boethius, c. 520

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.

—Leon Trotsky

A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

—Pericles, c. 450 BC

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