Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer. Then the world seemed none so bad, and I myself a sterling lad. And down in lovely muck I've lain, happy -- till I woke up again.
Alfred Edward Housman
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle. ALFRED HITCHCOCK You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company? ALFRED JARRY In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't ... ALFRED HITCHCOCK I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them. ALFRED HITCHCOCK Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men. ALFRED JARRY I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically Engli... ALFRED HITCHCOCK Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. ALFRED NOBEL God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. ALFRED JARRY The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them. ALFRED HITCHCOCK Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it. ALFRED HITCHCOCK Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of... ALFRED HITCHCOCK That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for the... ALFRED SUTRO To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be ... ALFRED JARRY Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs. ALFRED HITCHCOCK It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. ALFRED ADLER For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is th... ALFRED NOBEL Man know much more than he understands. ALFRED ADLER The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t... ALFRED ADLER The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationshi... ALFRED ADLER I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any ho... ALFRED HITCHCOCK With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown. ALFRED GLOSSBRENNER Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. ALFRED ADLER The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incom... ALFRED ADLER To be human means to feel inferior. ALFRED ADLER We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. ALFRED ADLER We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the ... ALFRED JARRY Man knows more than he understands. ALFRED ADLER The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. ALFRED ADLER There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as ... ALFRED ADLER Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. ALFRED NOBEL Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ALFRED AUSTIN There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. ALFRED HITCHCOCK The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with ... ALFRED ADLER