"we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches."

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Source : Beatrice Potter Webb (1963). “American diary, 1898”

Beatrice Webb

#Fire Quotes #Answers Quotes #Speech Quotes

“Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness”
“My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of - or reincarnated from - royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God.”
“The stakes are nary a problem to me, as I do not abide by Sir Isaac's law!”
“In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.”
“We could do it, you know.”
“Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.”
“Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.”

Source : Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.124, Octagon Press Ltd
“It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.”

Source : Ngaio Marsh (2012). “Death in a White Tie: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #7”, p.58, Felony & Mayhem Press

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