Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.
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- Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, four... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ... BRENT M. JONES Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge " (2.22)... JAMES JOYCE Life is a school of probability. WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning. LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon. MELANIE CHISHOLM I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... TAMMARA WEBBER Life is a grand party. EZRA MILLER Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English. The three men laughed ... ILONA ANDREWS The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. TED TURNER Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life. SAVI SHARMA She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that. JAMES DYSON My life is a struggle. VOLTAIRE Life is a lot like skateboarding. LIL WAYNE All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love. MORIHEI UESHIBA For me, life is a bowl of cherries. SISSY SPACEK Life is a right, not collateral or casual. SUHEIR HAMMAD Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. Go... PETER KREEFT As a movement (rather than a preference), the goal of antinatalism is that no humans should have chi... QUENTIN S. CRISP Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ... KELLY MCGILLIS It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. NAPOLEON HILL If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh... A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ... JOHN MUIR It is dangerous for a poor mind to handle money,for they become poorer because of the untimely money... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack. PETER BENCHLEY I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ... PAT BUCKLEY Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI All of life is a foreign country. JACK KEROUAC A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. MADAME DE STAEL To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. MARCUS AURELIUS Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight. HAILE GEBRSELASSIE For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA Life is a predicament which precedes death. HENRY JAMES Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. JACK KEROUAC Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome. DANNY MEYER Life is a soccer field, don't you think? SHAKIRA What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. CHARLIE CHAPLIN Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting. CAROLYN SEE When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket. NICK TOSCHES We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study... APURVA GAGLANI A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no... JANET FITCH I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would no... SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at a... SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I ... SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake." "It's not the end of the world if you do that every n... SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ... SARAH J. MAAS Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?" "Ah. The Suriel to... SARAH J. MAAS I was going to make him proud of the man I would become. I was finally going to chart my own course,... EMORY R. FRIE If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV ... JOHN GREEN A godmother is always there and genuine.The help she has given will never be forgotten but will glis... GARY F EVANS... If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think... GARY F EVANS... Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others. APURVA GAGLANI and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of... BRET EASTON ELLIS
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Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing. PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; they will both fall into the ditch... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publis... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE 'All Mr. Pitt's sentiments were liberal and elevated. His ruling passion was an unbounded ambition, ... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from di... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh. PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man ... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her fa... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by whic... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools. PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Ridicule is the best test of truth. PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it. PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take
care of the pence, for the pounds... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, four... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Despatch is the soul of business. PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD These poor mistaken people think they shine, and they do indeed,
but it is as putrefaction shines,-... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you
think is wholesome, you may say "you w... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh. PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with
silly things; for true wit or good... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The dews of the evening most carefully shun;
Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people
often smile, but seldom laugh. PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Unlike my subject, I will make my song.
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NATALIE DORMER I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to pro... NATALIE DORMER When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had... NATALIE DORMER The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovn... NATALIE DORMER Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as po... NATALIE DORMER Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body. NATALIE DORMER I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around histo... NATALIE DORMER The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both proje... NATALIE DORMER I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway... NATALIE DORMER I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only... NATALIE DORMER When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's ... NATALIE DORMER I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remem... NATALIE DORMER What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British country... NATALIE DORMER Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair. NATALIE DORMER I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and ... NATALIE DORMER When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk a... NATALIE DORMER Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way... NATALIE DORMER Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and ... NATALIE DORMER I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, whic... NATALIE DORMER Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of huma... NATALIE DORMER Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There... NATALIE DORMER It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a v... NATALIE DORMER I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick c... NATALIE DORMER Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in ... NATALIE DORMER It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in ou... NATALIE DORMER I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown h... NATALIE DORMER I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the grea... NATALIE DORMER Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way. NATALIE DORMER When I turn on the news in Paris, the way Syria is covered is different from the way it is covered i... NATALIE DORMER I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-mater... NATALIE DORMER It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist. NATALIE DORMER Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience. NATALIE DORMER There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's... NATALIE DORMER I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to ... NATALIE DORMER So many little girls dream about their wedding day. But with actresses, sometimes it's the inver... NATALIE DORMER Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don'... NATALIE DORMER You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.' NATALIE DORMER My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-r... NATALIE DORMER My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains... NATALIE DORMER I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress tha... NATALIE DORMER I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born... NATALIE DORMER Isn't it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holm... NATALIE DORMER I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are... NATALIE DORMER I'm a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I'v... NATALIE DORMER I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be? NATALIE DORMER As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Mate... 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DOUG STANHOPE I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was somethi... DOUG STANHOPE I love conspiracy theories. I used to just live on it. You know it's all hype and garbage, but y... DOUG STANHOPE Make it as easy as possible to become obsessive about hand washing. WILLIAM STANHOPE I kept a picture of me kissing my dad’s corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I’d break... DOUG STANHOPE I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that... DOUG STANHOPE If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit DOUG STANHOPE Everything that is going to kill you is extremely appetizing. DOUG STANHOPE Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny. DOUG STANHOPE I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the r... DOUG STANHOPE I don't ever want to become Bill Maher where I have to find some strong opinion on something jus... DOUG STANHOPE The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. DOUG STANHOPE You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour. DOUG STANHOPE The Internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV... DOUG STANHOPE This is wonderful. This is a good news story certainly for Nanaimo and for NALT. JOE STANHOPE The containers are supposed to be absolutely vermin-proof. JOE STANHOPE We understand that applies to timber harvesting. So we are OK there. JOE STANHOPE Those negotiations are at a very sensitive point right now. JOE STANHOPE It's a really happy day, there's no question about that. It's all due to the involvement of a lot of... JOE STANHOPE Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, ... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that'... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever sed... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose ... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober ... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, ... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from ... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oa... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's ... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with e... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. PHILIP TREACY Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them. PHILIP TREACY I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis&... PHILIP GREEN I'm in the retail business, not the circus business. PHILIP GREEN You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds ... PHILIP GREEN I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I... PHILIP GREEN You've got to love what you do to really make things happen. PHILIP GREEN They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is ex... PHILIP GREEN We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tige... PHILIP YANCEY Either I will find a way, or I will make one. PHILIP SIDNEY I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless. PHILIP GREEN Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. PHILIP TREACY Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. PHILIP MASSINGER My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v... PHILIP ZIMBARDO Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi... PHILIP ZIMBARDO Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species... PHILIP ROTH Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion PHILIP WYLIE All this, and Heaven too! PHILIP HENRY Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what ... PHILIP ZIMBARDO It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos... PHILIP SIDNEY Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in y... PHILIP PULLMAN The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. PHILIP EMEAGWALI Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim ... PHILIP CROSBY The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the w... PHILIP CALDWELL Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't ... PHILIP LARKIN Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers
Of such as do offend, make less the sin. PHILIP MASSINGER I got a good heart but my attitude gat people thinking I'm evil GENEREUX PHILIP A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an arm... PHILIP ROTH A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy un... PHILIP ROTH Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the bru... PHILIP LARKIN Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagina... PHILIP PULLMAN After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely p... PHILIP STREIFER I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes rea... PHILIP PULLMAN Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly whe... PHILIP ROTH You may boldly say, you did not plough
Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands
With the fruit... PHILIP MASSINGER You cannot change what you are, only what you do. PHILIP PULLMAN If God could run out of grace, He would’ve for me by now. And yet every morning I wake up, He says... GENEREUX PHILIP To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God ... PHILIP YANCEY There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willi... PHILIP PULLMAN We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and si... PHILIP PULLMAN After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. PHILIP PULLMAN Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of o... GENEREUX PHILIP I can’t bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel,” she continued. “Sooner anything than that. I us... PHILIP PULLMAN The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few. PHILIP KNIGHT Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here. PHILIP MASSINGER If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. PHILIP WYLIE I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so... PHILIP ROTH It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you con... PHILIP ROTH Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the... PHILIP GUEDALLA All architects want to live beyond their deaths. PHILIP JOHNSON Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, an... PHILIP ROTH Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survive... PHILIP BUTLER When in doubt, delete it. PHILIP COSBY When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it. PHILIP ROTH For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devil'... PHILIP LARKIN He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. PHILIP MASSINGER