"History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume."

-- George Eliot

#Costumes Quotes #Incidents Quotes

“The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do. It is our love that brings the city home. It is I grant you, an incautious and extravagant hope. But only outlandish hopes can make themselves at home.”
“When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.”

Source : Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.9
“The burden of Karma is heavy. All alike have heavy debts to pay. Yet none, so the Wisdom teaches, is ever faced with more than he can bear. Whether or not we can grin, we must bear it, and it is folly to attempt to run away.”

Source : Christmas Humphreys (1983). “Karma and rebirth”, Routledge
“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”
“All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.”

Source : "On the Rise: The Natalia Kills Experience". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.
“In life nothing is taken to its ultimate conclusion, life is a half-way house, a place of obligatory compromise; and, in dealing in logical conclusions, a man steps out of life -- or so it would be quite legitimate to argue.”
“I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving”

Source : Freya Stark (1974). “Letters: The furnace and the cup, 1914-30”
“The airline business is crazy. I've not been enamored with the industry in general. You can't depend on anybody and anything. It's dog-eat-dog and one thing or another from one minute to the next. What I understand about it, I don't like what I see.”

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