Adversaries Quote by Henry Miller

“Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a play or a novel which causes a flutter and exchange of…

— G. K. Chesterton

...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than…

— R. H. Tawney

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

— George Bernard Shaw

For me, earnestness is the greatest crime an Englishman can commit.

— Grayson Perry

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and,…

— Samuel Johnson

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

— George Bernard Shaw

He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of…

— Samuel Johnson

“The difference between a civilized man and a barbarous fiend—a madman, say - Lies, perhaps, Merely in a thin veneer of willed self-restraint.”

— Margaret Atwood

“He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.”

— Mary Shelley

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the…

— Walter Scott

The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures

— Democritus