"What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life; A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil; Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard."

-- Alexander Pope

#Wise Quotes #Night Quotes #Evil Quotes

“What was worse, he couldn't tell her how much he thought he maybe might kinda sorta love her.”
“Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.”
“Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.”
“If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.”

Source : Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.281, UPNE
“Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.”
“I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow”
“The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.”

Source : Robert Penn Warren (1989). “New and selected essays”, Random House Inc
“Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I had to guess the number of books she read during that time, I would place the number at somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand.”

Source : Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.163, Broadway Books

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