Accustomed Quote by Caitlin Thomas

The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“Those captivated by the cult of celebrity do not examine voting records or compare verbal claims with written and published facts and reports. The…

— Chris Hedges

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“What are the fifty newspapers, which those precocious urchins are bawling down the street, and which are kept filed within, what are they but…

— Charles Dickens

The ones who are prepared to reveal themselves and their lives appear to be the ones we cling to. They seem brave and vulnerable,…

— Angela Scanlon

A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat.

— Stephen Hawking

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are, by the most conservative counting, two grave and deeply regrettable collateral victims of the peer-review gruesome stratagem: one is the daring of…

— Zygmunt Bauman

“And, quite possibly, this lack (or seeming lack) of participation by a person's soul in the virtue of which he or she is the…

— Marcel Proust

“In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever tired, melomaniac and morphine-sodden; bankers' wives with eyes…

— Jean Lorrain

“…how ready they themselves are at bottom to make one pay; how they crave to be hangmen. There is among them an abundance of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk…

— William Cowper