“I never lie unless it is absolutely necessary. Or convenient.”
Walter Slezak (1902–1983) actor
Source: What Time's the Next Swan? (1962), Ch. 1, p. 8
“For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.”
— Jennifer Donnelly, book Revolution
Source: Revolution
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Tear your robe all you want;
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Diwan, 11–12.
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Speech to students at Cambridge University (4 December 1857)
Context: People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word in such a view and with such a thought! It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger now and then with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause and cause the spirit to waver and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.