Corruption Quote by Muriel Barbery

“I have the better right to indulgence herein, because my devotion to letters strengthens my oratorical powers, and these, such as they are, have…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I cannot think of those years without horror, loathing and heartache. I killed men in war and challenged men to duels in order to…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I think the worst way a writer can self-betray is by not being true to his or her experience of being alive. It’s my…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity, that i…

— Witold Gombrowicz

“These are the moments which possess the writer, not the lover, and which live on perpetually. One can return to them time and time…

— Lawrence Durrell

“I have striven never to betray myself”

— Jude Morgan

“Though he was inquiring into himself as closely as he could, he never even told himself that he had been dishonest. Fraud and dishonesty…

— Anthony Trollope

“power is obtainable respect is earned loyalty is priceless and revenge is sweet these are the lessons we learn in life”

— blanco vandam

“They live with the belief that anything is acceptable if you can get away with it, that self-gratification is the most important aspect of…

— R.A. Salvatore