I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss..., renders conversation insipid and vulgar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Lucy's] Aunt Margaret [Boggs] and Miss Sharpe are here on their way to a Woman's Rights Convention in Dayton. My point on this su...bject is that the proper discharge of the function of maternity is inconsistent with the like discharge of the duties of (the political duties of) citizenship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it can be... too easily countered. The best punches, like the best pieces of invective in this style, are either short-arm jabs, unexpectedly rapid and deadly; or else one-two blows, where you prepare your opponent with the first hit, and then, as his face comes forward, connect with your other fist: one, two. Both are effective; but they can be administered only by a real artist, with a real wish to knock his enemy out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Huckleberry Finn is a companion piece to Tom Sawyer, but a companion piece in reverse, a mirror image; it is the American un-succe...ss story, the story that had been embodied in Leatherstocking, proclaimed by Thoreau, and was again to be embodied in Ike McCaslin of Faulkner's The Bear, the drama of the innocent outside of society. Tom's story ends once he has been reclaimed by society, but Huck's real story does not even begin until he has successfully penetrated the world of respectability and, in the well-meaning clutches of the Widow and Miss Watson, begins to chafe under the ministrations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An illustrious individual remarks that Mrs. [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton is the salt, Anna Dickinson the pepper, and Miss [Susan B.] A...nthony the vinegar of the Female Suffrage movement. The very elements get the "white male" into a nice pickle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pirate gaped at Belinda's dragon, And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon,... He fired two bullets, but they didn't hit, And Custard gobbled him, every bit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me, trust me, ope...n their hearts and their minds to me, and cry and bleed on to the pages of my neat little notebooks, and then I went back to a safe place and made a story out of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »