Jeffrey Robinson quotes

Jeffrey Robinson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.”
-- Jeffrey Robinson

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“There are always people who are going to be opportunistic when they see situations unfolding the way that they are in New Orleans.”
-- Jeffrey Robinson

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“A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.”
“Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”
“[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.”

Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.136, Random House
“Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.”
“In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of a brave anarchist. The Arabian epoch-the Arabs look down on the Turks as they do on dogs-was the most cultured, the most intellectual and in every way best and happiest epoch in Spanish history. It was followed by the period of the persecutions with its unceasing atrocities.”
“Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.”
“To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.”
“When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.”
“Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!”

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