"I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum."

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Wyndham Lewis

#Country Quotes #Home Quotes #America Quotes

“A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.”

Source : Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”
“Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.”

Source : "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.
“Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, 'It's business.' That is, 'it's business' has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.”
“Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.”
“You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.”
“Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?”
“You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.”

Source : Source: www.etonline.com
“That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.”

Source : Replying to a politician who said 'I will support you as long as you are in the right', in Lord David Cecil 'Lord M' (1954) ch. 4

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