"Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#Light Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Hints Quotes

“It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.”
“Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I just watched it evaporate. You look one moment and there's everything, next moment it's gone. Photography is very philosophical.”
“[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would transform the world into their image.”
“This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.”
“It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list to such tales, his soul doth say, 'put by thy poor little likings and seek to do likewise.' Truly, one may not do as nobly one's self, but in the striving one is better...”
“A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set”
“That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!”
“During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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