“What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628–1687) English statesman and poet
Bayes, Act III, sc. i
The Rehearsal (1671)
Quoted in "Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business", page=131.
“What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628–1687) English statesman and poet
Bayes, Act III, sc. i
The Rehearsal (1671)
“What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.”
Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“Find good in what the world says is evil.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters
“Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
Complete Works, vol. 26, Reflections and Remarks on Human Life, section 4.
“What good is it? All this, what good is it? -Mariam”
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Wendell Berry (1934) author
"A Native Hill"
The Long-Legged House (1969)
Context: We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us... We must recover the sense of the majesty of the creation and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
Variant: Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Robert Pinsky (1940) American poet, editor, literary critic, academic.
WPFW-FM inteview with Grace Cavalieri 1995/96 season
Sukanto Tanoto (1949) Indonesian businessman
Speech, World Economic Forum Davos 2016. http://www.inside-rge.com/Sukanto-Tanoto-Fourth-C-WEF-Davos <br class="br">2016
Michel Barnier (1951) French politician
Michel Barnier: 'Realistic' Brexit plan needed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44737564 BBC News (6 July 2018) <br class="br">2018