Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
[On a dull party:] It was a fÃªte worse than death.
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

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