"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that."

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Source : Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.131

Pearl Bailey

#Cheating Quotes #Self Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”
“Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to a fine and ethereal substantiality. My Unwritten Books is a gathering of shades, an elegant and eloquent gathering of mind, feeling, and autumnal passion. (...) And that is the lovely irony of this unique little book. None of these unwritten books should have been written. They are better here, as they are, untamed and errant phantoms of a brilliance whose emanations no one mortal lifetime could ever accommodate in full.”
“I just learned how to scuba dive. Id been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.”
“When I read Frank Miller's 'The Dark Knight Returns', I think it's a wonderful record of the Reagan era. I think it's amazing. This is the time I lived in.”
“Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.”
“This house isn't mine anymore, but the memories are; the memories can't be sold. The building that housed my once-upon-a-time dreams stands for someone else now, as it did for the people before us, and I feel happy to let it go. Happy that I can begin again, anew, though bearing the scars of before. They represent wounds that have healed.”
“I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.”

Source : Comment on the Profumo affair, July 1963, in Anthony Sampson 'Macmillan' (1967) p. 243
“If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.”

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