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“Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.”
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“When you’re doing stuff online, you should behave as if you’re doing it in public – because increasingly, it is.”
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“Union gives strength to the humble.”
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“Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.”
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“The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I do not see how I can put it in words.”
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“All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.”
Source : Aphra Behn (2014). “Behn Five Plays”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.”
Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
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“The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages.”
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“An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.”
Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”
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“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others." —Cornflower”
