Elias Canetti Famous Quotes
"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves."
"The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer."
Elias Canetti Quotations
"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Edgar Watson Howe
There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas Alva Edison
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Benjamin Disraeli
"If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines)"
Ronald Reagan
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Clare Booth Luce
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
Miguel de Cervantes
"And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong-to belong to my mother. And in return-I wanted my mother to belong to me."
Gloria Vanderbilt
"Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee"
David Assael