The Citizens' Protective League of Denver, founded to "squelch the knocking and blackmailing newspapers in our beautiful but benig...hted city," demanded that no news story, editorial, or advertisement unfit for fifteen-year-olds to read should be published, ....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Still, I'm much happier here, really in it than I've been for an age. People don't hate much at the front; there's no one to hate,... except the poor devils across the way, whom they [the French soldiers] know to be as miserable as themselves. They don't talk hypocritical bosh about the beauty & manliness of war: they feel in their souls that if they weren't cowards they would have ended the thing long ago--by going home, where they want to be. And lastly and best, they don't jabber about atrocities--of course, everyone commits them--though about one story in a million that reaches our blessed Benighted States is true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grandmother, born in County Tyrone, believed as a good Irishwoman that there were only three kinds of tea fit to drink, none of th...em storebought. The first quality was kept, sensibly enough, in China. The second picking was sent directly to Ireland. The third and lowest grade went, of course, to the benighted British. And all the tea used in our house came once a year, in one or two beautiful soldered tin boxes, from Dublin. Then only would we know it to be second to what the Dowager Empress of China was drinking, while the other Old Lady in Buckingham Palace sipped our dregs, as served her right. ...My grandmother died before tea bags. I am grateful. My mother never admitted their existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man; ... />An' 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 'air-- You big black boundin' beggar--for you broke a British square!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their ...moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
American "energy"... is the energy of violence, of free- floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocation...s which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism and acquisitiveness. Into hectic philanthropy. Into benighted moral crusades, the most spectacular of which was Prohibition. Into an awesome talent for uglifying countryside and cities. Into the loquacity and torment of a minority of gadflies: artists, prophets, muckrakers, cranks, and nuts. And into self- punishing neuroses. But the naked violence keeps breaking through, throwing everything into question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For when we must resign our vital breath, Our Loves by Fate benighted,... We by this friendship shall survive in death, Even in divorce united. Weak Love through fortune or distrust In time forgets to burn, But this pursues us to the Urn, And marries either's Dust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Think of him,--of his rare qualities!--such a man as it takes ages to make, and ages to understand; no mock hero, nor the represen...tative of any party. A man such as the sun may not rise upon again in this benighted land. To whose making went the costliest material, the finest adamant; sent to be the redeemer of those in captivity; and the only use to which you can put him is to hang him at the end of a rope! You who pretend to care for Christ crucified, consider what you are about to do to him who offered himself to be the saviour of four millions of men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »