Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina
The establishing of a fact.
Pt. IV, ch. 4
Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
“Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things.
The honest thief, the tender murderer,
The superstitious atheist.”
"Bishop Blougram’s Apology", line 395; cited by Graham Greene as the epigraph he would choose for his novels.
Men and Women (1855)
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The honest thief, the tender murderer,
The superstitious atheist." by Robert Browning?
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English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812–1889Related quotes
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A fiend incarnate, a false usurer.”
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Virgidemarium (1598) IV.
Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor
p. 44 http://books.google.com/books?id=W6bPGIL-_-8C&pg=PA44&dq=%22On+second+thought,+maybe+the+atheist%22: Sometimes misattributed to Francis Thompson, whose quote "An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident" Peter was commenting on. <br class="br">Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977)
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Source: Black Easter (1968), Chapter 12 (p. 110)
Thomas More book Utopia
Source: Utopia (1516), Ch. 1 : Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, of the Best State of a Commonwealth
Context: I think putting thieves to death is not lawful; and it is plain and obvious that it is absurd and of ill consequence to the commonwealth that a thief and a murderer should be equally punished; for if a robber sees that his danger is the same if he is convicted of theft as if he were guilty of murder, this will naturally incite him to kill the person whom otherwise he would only have robbed; since, if the punishment is the same, there is more security, and less danger of discovery, when he that can best make it is put out of the way; so that terrifying thieves too much provokes them to cruelty.
“It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.”
Jenny Holzer (1950) American conceptual artist
“Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.”
Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
Chi ruba un corno, un cavallo, un anello,
E simil cose, ha qualche discrezione,
potrebbe chiarnarsi ladroncello;
Ma quel che ruba la riputazione,
E de l'altrui fatiche si fa bello,
Si puo chiamare assassino e ladrone.
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