“The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.”
Source: Postcards from the Edge
“The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.”
Source: Postcards from the Edge
“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
Source: The Essence of Christianity (1841)
“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”
Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt.
Section 98
See also Esse quam videri
Source: Laelius De Amicitia – Laelius On Friendship (44 BC)
“hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!”
Source: Liar's Game
“The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.”
Laila, p. 250
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
“To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.”
standup performance, date unknown[citation needed]
Standup routines
“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”
Source: 'Salem's Lot
“Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.”
Source: 1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927), Ch. 7
“It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.”
Source: Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
“The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.”
“Describe plum-blossoms?
Better than my verses… white
Wordless Butterflies”
Source: Japanese Haiku