Quotes 1641 till 1660 of 1785.
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What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.
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What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
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What men call gallantry and gods adultery Is much more common where the climate's sultry.
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What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.
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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
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What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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