The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
ALGERNON SYDNEY Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin...
ALGERNON SYDNEY No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
ALGERNON SYDNEY Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passio...
ALGERNON SYDNEY Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the esta...
ALGERNON SYDNEY God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate...
ALGERNON SYDNEY Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ...
ALGERNON SYDNEY All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
ALGERNON SYDNEY A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... th...
ALGERNON SYDNEY Liars need to have good memories.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and di...
ALGERNON SWINBURNE I will go back to the great sweet mother,/ Mother and lover of men, the sea.
ALGERNON SWINBURNE Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which
ALGERNON SWINBURNE For winter's rains and ruins are over,/ And all the season of snows and sins;/ The days dividing lov...
ALGERNON SWINBURNE And the best and the worst of this is/ That neither is most to blame/ If you have forgotten my kisse...
ALGERNON SWINBURNE Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars/ Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.
ALGERNON SWINBURNE I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end;/ Goddess and maiden and quee...
ALGERNON SWINBURNE From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever...
ALGERNON SWINBURNE Before the beginning of years/ There came to the making of man/ Time with a gift of tears,/ Grief wi...
ALGERNON SWINBURNE Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;
ALGERNON SWINBURNE If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are kn...
ALGERNON SIDNEY Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Liars ought to have good memories
ALGERNON SIDNEY Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are kn...
ALGERNON SIDNEY Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted
ALGERNON SIDNEY If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY God helps those who help themselves.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
ALGERNON SIDNEY The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given; "This is a joy," t...
ALGERNON SIDNEY He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee.
ALGERNON SIDNEY He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul, Is when it loses faith in God and ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY The day is short, the work is much.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Where liberty is, there is my country.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
ALGERNON SIDNEY My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol ...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin...
ALGERNON SIDNEY Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passio...
ALGERNON SIDNEY I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spi...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not unde...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and defi...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD For Gods sake, do not drag me into another war! I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and def...
SYDNEY SMITH To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
SYDNEY SMITH The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least t...
SYDNEY SMITH He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go ac...
SYDNEY BRENNER Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.
SYDNEY POLLACK A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The ...
SYDNEY SMITH No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
SYDNEY SMITH What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
SYDNEY SMITH Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 The grea...
SYDNEY SMITH Good friends are good for your health.
SYDNEY SMITH Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
SYDNEY SMITH One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer all th...
SYDNEY SMITH We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into th...
SYDNEY SMITH Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat; Back to the world he'd turn hi...
SYDNEY SMITH We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.
SYDNEY SMITH The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.
SYDNEY SMITH A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the ...
SYDNEY SMITH To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.
SYDNEY SMILES It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting t...
SYDNEY SMITH Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, an...
SYDNEY SMITH It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
SYDNEY SMITH How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after ...
SYDNEY SMITH No furniture is so charming as books.
SYDNEY SMITH It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite dir...
SYDNEY SMITH Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyo...
SYDNEY SMITH I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards.
SYDNEY POLLACK Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
SYDNEY HOOK I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
SYDNEY SMITH Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of e...
SYDNEY SMITH He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
SYDNEY SMITH The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did yo...
SYDNEY SMITH Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising wher...
SYDNEY SMITH Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
SYDNEY SMITH Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born b...
SYDNEY SMITH What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
SYDNEY SMITH Granted there are instances in which children have been reared in an atmosphere of inconsistency whe...
SYDNEY SMITH Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but...
SYDNEY SMITH Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being...
SYDNEY SMITH Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our...
SYDNEY SMITH I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
SYDNEY PFIZER Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent...
Be what Nature ...
SYDNEY SMITH A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their g...
SYDNEY SMITH The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
SYDNEY SMILES Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
SYDNEY SMITH Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friends...
SYDNEY SMITH Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious...
SYDNEY SMITH Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
SYDNEY SMITH A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good con...
SYDNEY SMITH It is safest to be moderately base -- to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is ge...
SYDNEY SMITH The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply ...
SYDNEY SMITH Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.
SYDNEY SMITH Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my f...
SYDNEY SMITH Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep ...
SYDNEY SMITH A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would...
SYDNEY SMITH I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life.
SYDNEY SMITH Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather t...
SYDNEY SMITH Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned...
SYDNEY SMITH His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes...
SYDNEY SMITH He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
SYDNEY SMITH The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else...
SYDNEY SMITH Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not bo...
SYDNEY SMITH Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled ...
SYDNEY HARRIS Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no m...
SYDNEY SMITH Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
SYDNEY SMITH Gardens are a form of autobiography.
SYDNEY EDDISON He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
SYDNEY SMITH Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended yo...
SYDNEY SMITH I don't have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I a...
SYDNEY POLLACK I love mixing and matching patterns, styles old and new, feminine and masculine and drawing inspirat...
SYDNEY WAYSER Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
SYDNEY MADWED If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your uni...
SYDNEY MADWED Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this all...
SYDNEY SMITH Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means t...
SYDNEY POLLACK During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA coul...
SYDNEY BRENNER As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
SYDNEY SMITH I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glasswar...
SYDNEY BRENNER As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.
SYDNEY SCHANBERG In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology...
SYDNEY BRENNER I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
SYDNEY SMITH People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand,...
SYDNEY POLLACK Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogar...
SYDNEY POLLACK When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman.
SYDNEY POLLACK It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
SYDNEY SMITH That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.
SYDNEY SMITH I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, rem...
SYDNEY SMITH Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that...
SYDNEY SMITH American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from ...
SYDNEY POLLACK The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can ...
SYDNEY GREENSTREET There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer.
SYDNEY POLLACK Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.
SYDNEY POLLACK It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
SYDNEY SMITH Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature inten...
SYDNEY SMITH I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
SYDNEY SMITH My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
SYDNEY SMITH Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of ex...
SYDNEY SMITH A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good co...
SYDNEY SMITH The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact ...
SYDNEY SMITH All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cak...
SYDNEY SMITH You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessaril...
SYDNEY SMITH To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold ...
SYDNEY SMITH There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, ...
SYDNEY SMITH Live always in the best company when you read.
SYDNEY SMITH Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no mo...
SYDNEY SMITH Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this allia...
SYDNEY SMITH Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.
SYDNEY POLLACK Do not assume that because I am frivolous I am shallow; I don't assume that because you are grave yo...
SYDNEY SMITH No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
SYDNEY POLLACK Even with 'Three Days of the Condor,' I wanted to do a thriller. But I was still concentrati...
SYDNEY POLLACK At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone ...
SYDNEY POLLACK I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing...
SYDNEY POLLACK What you don't know would make a great book.
SYDNEY SMITH 'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself...
SYDNEY WAYSER At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or w...
SYDNEY POLLACK By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need ...
SYDNEY POLLACK Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
SYDNEY SMITH The essence to me of all good drama is argument.
SYDNEY POLLACK Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thi...
SYDNEY POLLACK Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of exist...
SYDNEY SMITH Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relativ...
SYDNEY MADWED The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the k...
SYDNEY BRENNER I've always thought of Denys Finch Hatton as a combination of Hubbell Gardner from 'The Way ...
SYDNEY POLLACK Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of we...
SYDNEY POLLACK The song 'Wolf Eyes,' I wrote because I felt like I was such a kitten. I want to be more of ...
SYDNEY WAYSER Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
SYDNEY POLLACK No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.
SYDNEY POLLACK Kubrick and I were pretty good friends.
SYDNEY POLLACK Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would re...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the ...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn'...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brookly...
SYDNEY SCHANBERG Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
SYDNEY SMITH It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you...
SYDNEY POLLACK Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce-suspected, animate the whole.
SYDNEY SMITH I went in with Jack and Leslie, into this room that was lined with brick, and there on the side I ca...
SYDNEY BRENNER For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended u...
SYDNEY POLLACK I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school...
SYDNEY BRENNER We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you k...
SYDNEY POLLACK I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begi...
SYDNEY BRENNER It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is gen...
SYDNEY SMITH The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on t...
SYDNEY SMITH My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon
SYDNEY SMITH There is not the least use in preaching to anyone, unless you chance to catch them ill.
SYDNEY SMITH We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today.
SYDNEY SMITH He deserves to be preached to death by wild curates
SYDNEY SMITH What you don't know would make a great book.
SYDNEY SMITH I never could find any man who could think for two minutes together
SYDNEY SMITH Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today
SYDNEY SMITH I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave
SYDNEY SMITH Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed
SYDNEY SMITH For God's sake, do not drag me into another war! I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and de...
SYDNEY SMITH The man who talks of an unalterable law is probably an unalterable fool
SYDNEY SMITH A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
SYDNEY SMITH They wanted to help for [surgery costs] and anything that would help me, like glasses. It was so sup...
SYDNEY SMITH I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so
SYDNEY SMITH Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand...
SYDNEY SMITH