Man may deceive his fellow-men, deception may follow deception, and the children of the wicked one may have power to seduce the foolish and untaught, till naught but fiction feeds the many, and the fruit of falsehood carries in its current the giddy ...
If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but for all time: and indeed it would seem now that it will be extremely dangerous to neglect it. If death were a release from everything, it would be a b...
We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent; his base...
If the characters are not wicked, the book is." We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float her little brother on a river with nothing but a basket between him and the crocodiles. Stories in which a king is a coward, a...
No innocence can shield a man from the calumnies of the wicked. [...] As a shadow follows its substance, so envy pursues goodness. It is only at the tree laden with fruit that men throw stones. If we would live without being slandered we must wait un...
Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered ...
Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.
I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.
My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
Being in a relationship grounds you. You feel a sense of home.
At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.
I'm a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I'm not that good at all.
I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.
Synchronicity - the sense of significance beyond chance
There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.
