“His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.”
“A book that reveals the mind is worth more than one that only reveals its subject.”
“It all seemed like madness, but was madness anything other than desperation blended with hope?”
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 29, “Choice and Sacrifice” (p. 270)
Fear and Trembling, p. 55
1840s, Fear and Trembling (1843)
Source: Gestalt Psychology. 1930, p. 150
Dracula's Daughter, telling Garth that she believes Von Helsing's story of vampires Unbeknownst to Garth, the Countess is a vampire.
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Christian Nestell Bovee, in Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 124
Misattributed
“The music game is more than just my love for singing, its a sport for me.”
Inside Entertainment (2008)
“Sybil had an unreal, larger-than-life feeling... as if she were a person in a book.”
Source: The Sex Sphere (1983), p. 103
“I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.”
Interview on Nationwide (1 July 1983).
“A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.”
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 159
What I've Learned (July 2002)
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.”
Or, for that matter, as true.
Source: The Areas of My Expertise (2005), p. 18
“Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”
Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)
“Our security has been diminished rather than enhanced as a result of the conquests in this war.”
"The Territories" (1968)
Houghton v. Matthews (1803), 3 Bos. & Pull. 497.
“Ron's funnier than Robin Williams. The hard thing is not to laugh when the camera is rolling.”
on Rupert Grint
