"If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down."

-- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

#Jealous Quotes #Blow Quotes #Envy Quotes

“The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.”
“I'm a tiger when I want love, but I'm a snake if we disagree.”
“When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!”
“Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.”

Source : "Weary U.S. Workers Are Still Experiencing Hard Times" by James P. Hoffa, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2014.
“If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun!”
“The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.”
“There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty and revenge, unless it be the New Testament, which arms its God with hell, and extends his outrages throughout all eternity!”
“There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!”

Source : Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.57, Booklassic

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