“I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
" My own heart let me have more have pity on http://www.bartleby.com/122/47.html", lines 1-4 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“I am tormented by temptations."
"What kind? There is a cure for temptation."
"What?"
"Yielding to it.”
Honoré de Balzac book Le Pere Goriot
Je suis tourmenté par de mauvaises idées.
— En quel genre? Ça se guérit, les idées.
- Comment?
- En y succombant.
Part II.
Le Père Goriot (1835)
“That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.”
Elizabeth Gaskell book Sylvia's Lovers
Sylvia's Lovers, ch. 1 (1863)
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
The New York Times Magazine (7 June 1970)
“Respect is one of the most elegant and cultural choices a human being can make.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Il rispetto è una delle scelte più eleganti e culturali che un essere umano possa fare.
Source: prevale.net
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: La donna intelligente, sarà sempre attratta da dolcezza, simpatia, eleganza, cultura e rispetto. Non dall'apparenza.
Source: prevale.net