George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
George Bernard Shaw never said these words, but Charles F. Brannan did. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/12/13/swap-ideas/ <br class="br">Misattributed
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
George Bernard Shaw never said these words, but Charles F. Brannan did. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/12/13/swap-ideas/ <br class="br">Misattributed
Stephen Fry book Moab Is My Washpot
On being gay
Stephen Fry actually admitted this was a quote from a friend, not himself. (Moab Is My Washpot)
1990s, Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)
Mattin (1977) Spanish musician
Page 180.
"Anti-Copyright: Why Improvisation and Noise Run Against the Idea of Intellectual Property" (October 2008)
“The idea of hell was born of ignorance, brutality, fear, cowardice, and revenge.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The Great Infidels (1881)
Context: The idea of hell was born of ignorance, brutality, fear, cowardice, and revenge. This idea testifies that our remote ancestors were the lowest beasts. Only from dens, lairs, and caves, only from mouths filled with cruel fangs, only from hearts of fear and hatred, only from the conscience of hunger and lust, only from the lowest and most debased could come this most cruel, heartless and bestial of all dogmas.
V.S. Naipaul (1932–2018) Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Nepalese ancestry
As quoted in "V.S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation" with Mel Gussow, The New York Times, (24 April 1994) http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/07/specials/naipaul-conversation.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
“We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)
Robert Browning The Ring and the Book
And Law does listen and compose the strife,
Settle the suit, how wisely and how well!
On our Pompilia, faultless to a fault,
Law bends a brow maternally severe,
Implies the worth of perfect chastity,
By fancying the flaw she cannot find.
Book IX : Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius, Fisci et Rev. Cam. Apostol. Advocatus.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)