Poor Cecil. It’s hard to be a devil of a fellow in these…

“Poor Cecil, consumed by a grande passion, only to be told to compress his love manifesto into a haiku. “I won’t try to excuse…

— Franny Billingsley

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for…

— Idries Shah

“Military analysis is not an exact science. To return to the wisdom of Sun Tzu, and paraphrase the great Chinese political philosopher, it is…

— Michael O'Hanlon

“Greatness has its beauties, but only in retrospect and in the imagination": thus wrote General Bonaparte to General Moreau in 1800. His observation helps…

— J. Christopher Herold

"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the…

— H. P. Blavatsky

Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly…

— Marisha Pessl

... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and religious…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

“Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are from any…

— Steven Magee

I'll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city…

— Nina Turner

Vampires as creatures have evolved over time as different vampire bloodlines have hit different populations of humans. Every once in a while the blood…

— Scott Snyder

“In short, a strong royal advisor class insists on stopping and thinking. And it tries, I think with growing success in modern times, to…

— Elaine N. Aron

Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

I've had to make time to really explore all the amazing things that are out and try to understand the history of how fashion…

— Christopher Jackson

“A joke’s funny, right? That wasn’t. It’s perfectly okay for a woman to have a sexual appetite, to take the lead now and then.…

— Shani Struthers

When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like…

— Joseph Goebbels