"Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense—can he talk nonsense?" William Pitt the elder
"O, popular applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?"
William Cowper
"The public seldom forgive twice."
  • Acquaintance, describing an unpopular man: "He's his own worst enemy."
  • Franklin P. Adams: "Not while I'm around."
    (11/15/1881 – 03/23/1960)
    US writer
Franklin Pierce Adams
"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."
"Utopian Turtletop."
  • Marianne Moore
    (11/15/1887 – 02/05/1972)
    US poet, suggested name for the car that became the Edsel
Marianne Moore
"I hate flowers—I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move." Georgia O'Keeffe
"I'll thcream and thcream and thcream till I'm thick." Richmal Crompton
"This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time." Aneurin Bevan
"A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status—all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing)."