Fatal Quotes

491 quotes by 390 authors

While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so… — Dick Cavett
No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it… — Lysander Spooner
So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a… — Wyndham Lewis
I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal. — Graham Kennedy
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. — Walter Legge
I always say to people, the Eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the Nineties, everyone… — Nick Rhodes
I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never… — William John Locke
It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that… — Maximilien Robespierre
Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop… — Charles Stross
Fortunately, in her kindness and patience, Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most… — Carl Jung
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing… — William James
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up… — Joseph Addison
Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be… — Joseph Addison
Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners. — Lord Chesterfield
The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations,… — Odilon Redon
Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can… — Cyril Connolly
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions.… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to… — Claude Monet
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. — Auguste Rodin

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