Cut down the proud towering thoughts that you get into you, or see they be pure as well as high. There is a nobler ambition than the gaining of all California would be, or the getting of all the suffrages that are on the planet just now.
1860s, On The Choice Of Books (1866)
1860s, On The Choice Of Books (1866)
“We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.”
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act IV
Chap. 6 : How to Choose Effectively
The Evolution of Cooperation (1984; 2006)
“I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that.”
Of a digital edited picture on a magazine
MoveOn.org, quoted by Alicia, moveOn.org, on 27 May 2011 http://front.moveon.org/kate-winslet-i-dont-look-like-that-and-i-dont-desire-to-look-like-that/
“I would suggest that his next opponents don't look to me for advice”
Andre Agassi after being beaten in QF of Australian Open 2005 http://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=23883
“Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.”
Part II, Chapter 4, Analytical Models ans Empirical Results, p. 48.
The Art and Science of Negotiation (1982)
"A Philologist on Esperanto" in The British Esperantist (May 1932).
Years later, in a 1956 letter (quoted more extensively below) he stated that Esperanto and other constructed languages were "dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends."
