Quotes of: Machiavelli Keyword

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

Antonia Fraser

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Arthur Helps

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Aristophanes

Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.

Aristophanes

America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.

Bill Dedman

ABC forbids political activity by journalists.

Bill Dedman

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Alexander Hamilton

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Aristophanes

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

Jonathan Coe

You should never ask actors about politics.

Liev Schreiber

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

Timothy Garton Ash

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Wendell Phillips

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Guy de Maupassant

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.

Thomas Wolfe

Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

William Hamilton Maxwell

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.

William Hamilton Maxwell

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Van Wyck Brooks

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Sophocles

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

There was no opiate like a French pillow.

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris