There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurts... nobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, ...to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most women of [the WW II] generation have but one image of good motherhood--the one their mothers embodied. . . . Anything done "f...or the sake of the children" justified, even ennobled the mother's role. Motherhood was tantamount to martyrdom during that unique era when children were gods. Those who appeared to put their own needs first were castigated and shunned--the ultimate damnation for a gender trained to be wholly dependent on the acceptance and praise of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In all institutions where the brisk air of public criticism fails to circulate (as, for example, in scholarly bodies and senates),... an innocent corruption grows up, like a mushroom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Emperor Joseph II: Your work is ingenious. It's quality work, and there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and ...it will be perfect. Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, majesty?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then sounds the voice of One who like the heart of man Was once a child who among beasts has lain--... 'Still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my Blood, for thee.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you again what you are to presume. [The defendant] is innocent. I am the judge. I am telling you... that. Presume he is innocent. When you sit there, I want you to look and say to yourself, There sits an innocent man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? So he that... goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed inn...ocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »