“Shitty things are always simple. Same as great things. Patrick Standish, in conversation.”
The speaker is Patrick Standish, copyrighting his own witticism.
Source: Difficulties with Girls (1988), Ch. 17, p. 248
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English novelist, poet, critic, teacher 1922–1995Related quotes
“I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.”
Source: Like the Flowing River
“What is wisdom? Always desiring the same things, and always refusing the same things.”
quid est sapienta? semper idem velle atque idem nolle.
Here, Seneca uses the same observation that Sallust made regarding friendship (in his historical account of the Catilinarian conspiracy, Bellum Catilinae[XX.4]) to define wisdom.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XX: On practicing what you preach, Line 5
“It is always the simple things that can really warm the heart.”
Original: Sono sempre le semplici cose che riescono davvero a scaldare il cuore.
Source: prevale.net
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
Source: Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics