Ratcliffe was a great statesman. The smoothness of his manipulation was marvelous. No other man in politics, indeed no other man w...ho had ever been in politics in this country, could--his admirers said--have brought together so many hostile interests and made so fantastic a combination. Some men went so far as to maintain that he would "rope in the President himself before the old man had time to swap knives with him." The beauty of his work consisted in the skill with which he evaded questions of principle. As he wisely said, the issue now involved was not one of principle but of power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Agnes: A half-smart guy, that's what I always draw. Never once a man who's smart all the way around the course. Never once. P...hilip Marlowe: I hurt you much, sugar? Agnes: You and every other man I've ever met.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the te...st.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man, said Birkin, cuts another man's throat unless he wants to cut it, and unless the other man wants it cutting. This is a com...plete truth. It takes two people to make a murder: a murderer and a murderee.... And a man who is murderable is a man who has in a profound if hidden lust desires to be murdered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is something in the breast of almost every man, which at bottom takes offense at the attentions of any other man offered to ...a woman, the hope of whose nuptial love he himself may have discarded. Fain would a man selfishly appropriate all the hearts which have ever in any way confessed themselves his.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In the highest confidence th...ere is always a flavor of doubt--a feeling, half instinctive and half logical, that, after all, the scoundrel may have something up his sleeve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now look, Winocki. There are two other men on this ship who washed up as pilots. But Martin's a bombardier and Hauser went in for ...navigation. And they're both good. You're a good gunner or you wouldn't have the rating you've got. We need you just like we need the whole gang. It takes all of us to make this ship function. Now get this into your head. We all belong to this airplane. Every man has got to rely on every other man to do the right thing at the right time. You played football, Winocki. You know how one man can gum up the works. You gotta play ball with us and play the game, or I'm gonna have to get rid of you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »