
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), Conclusion : Don Quixote in the Contemporary European Tragi-Comedy
Requiem for a Dream (1978)
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), Conclusion : Don Quixote in the Contemporary European Tragi-Comedy
“There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.”
“What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?”
You can't have your Kayak and heat it
“Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.”
April 4, 2006.[citation needed]
2000s
“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 702.
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
“There’s nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.”
On the expenses scandal in the UK.
Quoted in Pink News http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-12560.html
This is a variation on a line from Lord Macaulay's 'On Moore's Life of Lord Byron' (1830): 'We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.'
2000s
“There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.”
Book XXXIV, sec. 4
History of Rome