"Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character."

-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Character Quotes #Levers Quotes #Building Quotes

“It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents cacophony is told he is a pedant; and in all these matters the final crushing blow administered to the man of discrimination is the ascription to him of a hidebound prejudice against things that are new because they are new.”

Source : Royal Cortissoz (1916). “Art and common sense”
“I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.”

Source : "Alvin Martin: 'Scousers and cockneys get on. It's the mickey-taking'". Interview With Jacob Steinberg, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2011.
“Evil is like a Vampire. When you take arms against it and destroy it, you find in the end that you are evil too-that it is living on your own actions.”
“Jesu, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high; Hide me,O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last.”

Source : 1740 'In Temptation', collected in Hymns and Sacred Poems.
“I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those.”
“Society isn't a simple organism with one nucleus and a fringe of little feet, it's an infinitely complex living structure and if you try to suppress any part of it by that much, and perhaps more, you diminish, you mutilate the whole.”
“It was a thought, that. Not to attach yourself to a man, but to confront instead the open world, the wide fields of France and Spain, the ocean, anything. Not just to hitch a lift with the first fellow who looked as though he knew where he was going, but just to go.”

Source : Jo Baker (2013). “Longbourn”, p.163, Random House
“I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human being can have. How could I forget that Fidel Castro was the person who did me so much harm?”

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