"If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps."

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Source : Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.55

Douglas William Jerrold

#Snakes Quotes #Creeps Quotes #Slander Quotes

“I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.”
“There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.”
“Nothing means anything here. When they pull down an outstanding building, no one objects. Oh, maybe there's a wee protest from some collectors or something who take a picture of it before it vanishes.”
“There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.”
“I write the things that I find most attractive in women. I like intelligence, I like passion - give me a little fire, be strong, don't be wishy-washy, do the right thing.”
“The Jews started it all-and by 'it' I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values that make all of us, Jew and Gentile, believer and aethiest, tick. Without the Jews, we would see the world through different eyes, hear with different ears, even feel with different feelings ... we would think with a different mind, interpret all our experience differently, draw different conclusions from the things that befall us. And we would set a different course for our lives.”

Source : "The Gifts of the Jews : How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels". Book by Thomas Cahill, 1998.
“To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.”
“Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.”

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