“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
Crime and Punishment (1866)
“In America nothing dies easier than tradition.”
"A Little Bones Trouble," The New York Times (1991-05-14)
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writer and satirst from the United States 1925–2019Related quotes
Anton Chekhov
(1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to N.A. Leikin (December 24, 1886)
Letters
“Nothing less will content me, than whole America.”
Edmund Burke
(1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
Abraham Lincoln
(1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1860s, Second State of the Union address (1862)
“Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.”
The Artist's Way (1992), p. xxv
Charles Darwin
(1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
Source: The Origin of Species
Johnny Got His Gun (1938)
Context: Just say "mister I'm sorry, I got no time to die, I'm too busy" and then turn and run like hell. If they say coward why don't pay any attention because it's your job to live not to die. If they talk about dying for principles that are bigger than life, you say "mister you're a liar. Nothing is bigger than life". There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about lying in the ground and rotting? What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead? Because when you're dead, mister, it's all over. It's the end. You're less than a dog, less than a rat, less than a bee or an ant, less than a white maggot crawling around on a dungheap. You're dead, mister, and you died for nothing.
Henry Adams
(1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
"The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton" Ch. 4
Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)
Context: Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion.