When your house is on fire, you can't be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your king is under attack you don...'t worry about losing a pawn on the queen's side.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is the village where the funeral Stilted its dusty march over deep ruts... Up the hillside covered with queen's lace To the patch of weeds known finally to all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no such thing as "the Queen's English." The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk... of the shares!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the pa...inter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man... can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture--in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has... turned out to be an Annus Horribilis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation--th...e great peaks we had forgotten, of Honour, Duty, Patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer, the ...creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention; his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle,--and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet order ing, arrangement, and decision. She sees the qualities of things, their claims, and their places. Her great function is Praise: she enters into no contest, but infallibly adjudges the crown of contest. By her office and place, she is protected from all danger and temptation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »