Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909
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The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
—John Donne, c. 1629If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865Egypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
—Al Capone, 1929A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1966Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844It is not right for a ruler who has the nation in his charge, a man with so much on his mind, to sleep all night.
—Homer, c. 750 BC