"Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir."

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Source : Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.1065, Delphi Classics

Aphra Behn

#Ass Quotes #Flatterer Quotes

“We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.”
“In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.”
“I suppose you know where this country would be, where the world would be, if everyone who got depressed by the papers stopped reading them.”

Source : SUE KAUFMAN (1967). “DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE”
“I'd tell you to go to hell but I don't want to see you again.”
“Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.”
“The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so”
“If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom... What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint.”
“Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”

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