
“Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.”
Source: Wizard and Glass
as quoted in Pan-Islamism: Indian Muslims, the Ottomans and Britain, 1877-1924 (1997) by Azmi Ozcan During a discussion with the Ottoman Admiral Syedi Ali Reis, the Mughal Emperor Humayun.
“Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.”
Source: Wizard and Glass
Chick tracts, " Why Should I? http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1079/1079_01.asp" (2012)
Page 74.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
From Vérité: forçage et innomable, translated as Truth: Forcing and the Unnameable in Theoretical Writings. London: Continuum, 2004. ISBN 0826461468.
A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1929)
Context: Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the straying of the planets and the magnificance of the fixed stars. Is not a man different, utterly different, at dawn from what he is at sunset? And a woman too? And does not the changing harmony and discord of their variation make the secret music of life?
Source: The San Albino Manifesto (July 1, 1927)
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), Ch. 1
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956)
“Still, he deserved to die. He called me an asshole.”
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 22