Richard Taverner quotes

“Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.”
-- Richard Taverner

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“Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust.”
-- Richard Taverner

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“Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.”

Source : Address to the Geological Society, delivered on the Evening of the 18th of February 1831, Proceedings of the Geological Society, 1, 307, 1834.

“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”

“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.”

“We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.”

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

“The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (2007). “Vintage Hammett”, p.151, Vintage

“I can’t tell by looking in your eyes whether you’re a priest or a crook.”

“Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.”

“There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.”

“Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.”