Quotes 321 till 340 of 1785.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Source: Politics and the English Language (1946) -
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
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But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
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But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
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By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.
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By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.
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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Calmness is great advantage; he that lets another chafe, may warm him at his fire.
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Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.
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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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