The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part III: Strange Bedfellows, Philip the Sap
The Altogether New Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1907 (1906).
“Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n.
One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.”
Source: The Deeper Meaning of Liff
From Diplomacy and Art http://diplomatartist.com/diplomacy-art/, a contributer article for Diplomat Artist, October 10, 2015
“Not all the arts of diplomacy are learned solely in its practice. There are other exercise yards.”
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), State Department Management, Leadership Perspectives
“Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you can find a rock. ”
Source: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 3, "The Cabin" (p. 20)
“Besides, for poets it wasn’t lying, it was art.”
Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 9 “A Stranger is Coming to Makendha” (p. 72)
“What’s Wrong with Being Proud?”
Pieces of Eight (1982)
Context: Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country’s virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, “the greatest,” but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.”
Has Man a Future? (1962), p. 78
1960s
