"And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost."

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Source : Robert Penn Warren (1996). “All the King's Men”, p.372, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Robert Penn Warren

#Devil Quotes #Students Quotes #Complicated Quotes

“Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls?”
“We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.”
“I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby.”
“Whatever. Boris, must you constantly breathe on me?”
“Good evening and welcome to Have I Got News for You, the show that's done for Friday and Saturday nights what ten pints of lager does for Sunday mornings, although I wouldn't know, being more partial to cocaine personally. Allegedly.”
“Agriculture is in danger. The whole world is in danger. We need to learn to adapt. If we don't, we'll face catastrophic consequence on a scale you cannot imagine.”
“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.”
“Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.”

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