Business Quote by Helen DeWitt

“His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call “repose in action,” a quality of those who act rather than talk.”

— Jules Verne

“To be objective is to treat others as you treat an object, a corpse—to behave with them like an undertaker.”

— Emil Cioran

“Graham and the undertaker's assistants strapped the body to a wide board with a rope that crossed under his right shoulder and again over…

— Ron Hansen

Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.

— J. K. Rowling

“You’re being deliberately cruel, now.” “No – I think deliberately cruel would be if I told you something rude, like: I’d love to see…

— Charlotte Stein

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

— Anonymous

“As it usually happened after an engagement, a heavy sadness was coming down over his spirits. To some degree it was the prodigious contrastbetween…

— Patrick O'Brian

As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

— Anonymous

“We must learn that any person who will not accept what he knows to be truth for the very love of truth alone is…

— Luther Burbank

“I have found in my life, Rek, that there are a few actions which are unforgivable. And certainly there are no words said that…

— David Gemmell

“It would be a great mistake to suppose that it is sufficient not to become personal yourself. For by showing a man quite quietly…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Severe punishment unquestionably has an immediate effect in reducing a tendency to act in a given way. This result is no doubt responsible for…

— B.F. Skinner