Quotes of: Decent-man Keyword

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.

Minority Report

But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness.

My Cousin Rachel

Sebastian grinned into his drink. Rules. He loved rules. They were so much fun to break.

The Man Without Rules

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

I wondered who would teach me, or if a boy could learn on his won, what it means to be a man.

The Mountain Story

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

The Man Who Was Thursday

Die Freiheit von der Hoffnung ist die vollkommene Freiheit. The freedom of the hope is complete freedom.

The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

The Moviegoer

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Northanger Abbey

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

No Man Is an Island

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

Notes from Underground

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

Neverwhere

The realm of liberation is absolutely incommensurable with the relativities of higher and lower, better and worse, gain and loss, since these are all disadvantages of the ego.

Nature, Man and Woman

It’s still his favorite dish, though. War and rancid meat.

No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife

...all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel -- the welcoming hand of the interested stranger.

One Man Caravan

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

Light in August

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ― Portuguese Proverb

The Life and Letters of Father Andrew

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.

Laughable Loves