“FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery.”
Douglas Adams book The Meaning of Liff
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“Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.”
— Ambrose Bierce, book The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabu… 1842–1914Related quotes
“Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.”
Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Context: Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) Jewish-American political theorist
Letter to James Baldwin (21 November 1962).
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Context: In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy. All the characteristics you stress in the Negro people: their beauty, their capacity for joy, their warmth, and their humanity, are well-known characteristics of all oppressed people. They grow out of suffering and they are the proudest possession of all pariahs. Unfortunately, they have never survived the hour of liberation by even five minutes. Hatred and love belong together, and they are both destructive; you can afford them only in private and, as a people, only so long as you are not free.
“Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.”
Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Omar al-Bashir (1944) Sudanese president
About the Darfur conflict, Sudanese President Confrontation Is Million Times Better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQuFZaswX0M August 2006
“Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions.”
Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
From a conversational exchange with Harold Begbie, as cited in Master Workers, Begbie, Methuen & Co. (1906), p. 177.
Early career years (1898–1929)
Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
