Fatal Quotes

491 quotes by 400 authors

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of… — Anatole France
All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal. — Baltasar Gracian
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist… — Paul Theroux
What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it… — William Hazlitt
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own… — George Santayana
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness. — Andre Gide
And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might… — Malcolm X
The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed — Friedrich Nietzsche
Success is not permanent & failure is not fatal. — Mike Ditka
To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow… — Phyllis Bottome
This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the… — Steve Perry
I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions… — Ravi Zacharias
[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful… — Gian-Carlo Rota
The fatal futility of Fact. — Henry James
Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal. — Charles E. McKenzie
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other… — Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a… — George Boole
Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a… — L. Neil Smith

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