Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909
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Everyone 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, 1982A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1714I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain, 1894Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970There are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.
—Increase Mather, 1684