"A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves."

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J. B. Priestley

#School Quotes #Men Quotes #Style Quotes

“A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.”

Source : Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.572, Delphi Classics
“I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it.”
“The weird thing about saying good-bye is that it never gets easier.”
“I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.”
“I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.”
“The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.”
“If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.”
“Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.”

Source : Joseph Rodman Drake (1835). “The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems”, p.77

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