"There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark."

-- Jacques Rigaut

#People Quotes #Littles Quotes #Merit Quotes

“It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way.”
“Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation.”
“Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.”
“Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.”
“You love simply because you cannot help it.”
“Iâ€™ve always known that thereâ€™s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesnâ€™t regret that he isnâ€™t more fully understood?”
“Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.”
“Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia.”

Source : Peter Coleman, Peter Costello (2009). “The Costello Memoirs”, p.379, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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