Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in ye...ars. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humoured, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich--that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At length I entered within the skirts of the cloud which seemed forever drifting over the summit, and yet would never be gone.... ...It reminded me of the creations of the old epic and dramatic poets, of Atlas, Vulcan, the Cyclops, and Prometheus. Such was Caucasus and the rock where Prometheus was bound. Ãâ schylus had no doubt visited such scenery as this. It was vast, Titanic, and such as man never inhabits. Some part of the beholder, even some vital part, seems to escape through the loose grating of his ribs as he ascends. He is more lone than you can imagine. There is less of substantial thought and fair understanding in him than in the plains where men inhabit. His reason is dispersed and shadowy, more thin and subtle, like the air. Vast, Titanic, inhuman Nature has got him at disadvantage, caught him alone, and pilfers him of some of his divine faculty. She does not smile on him as in the plains. She seems to say sternly, Why came ye here before your time? This ground is not prepared for you. Is it not enough that I smile in the valleys?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thing has been blown up out of all proportion. PC language is not enjoined on one and all--there are a lot more places where y...ou can say "spic" and "bitch" with impunity than places where you can smoke a cigarette.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, kid, there are more things in this life than you can possibly imagine. I knew a whore once in Wilmington. She had a glass ey...e. She used to take it out and work people off for a dollar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any ...more than you can fake a good meal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man ...wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great... and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest-lived.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sam Spade: You, eh, you aren't exactly the sort of a person you pretend to be, are you? Brigid O'Shaughnessy: Why, I'm not su...re I know exactly what you mean. Spade: The schoolgirl manner. You know, blushing, stammering, and all that. Brigid: I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad. Worse than you can know. Spade: Yeah, well that's good. Because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere. Brigid: I won't be innocent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »