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Us Quotes by Cyril Connolly
- If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual…
- Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
- No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
- Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.
- The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little…
- Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in…
- There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we…
- The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong