There is no wisdom that can take the place of humanity, and we find that in Chaucer. We can expand at last in his breadth, and we ...think that we could have been that man's acquaintance. He was worthy to be a citizen of England, while Petrarch and Boccaccio lived in Italy, and Tell and Tamerlane in Switzerland and in Asia, and Bruce in Scotland, and Wickliffe and Gower and Edward the Third and John of Gaunt and the Black Prince were his own countrymen as well as contemporaries; all stout and stirring names. The fame of Roger Bacon came down from the preceding century, and the name of Dante still possessed the influence of a living presence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Flaemmchen: Did you ever see a stenographer with a decent frock on? The Baron: I have indeed.... Flaemmchen: One she'd bought herself? The Baron: Oh, I see what you mean.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grusinskaya: You must go now. The Baron: I'm not going. You know I'm not going. Oh, please let me stay.... Grusinskaya: But I want to be alone. The Baron: That isn't true. You don't want to be alone. You were in despair just now. I can't leave you now. You mustn't cry anymore. You must forget. Let me stay for just a little while. Ahh, please let me stay. Grusinskaya: For just a minute then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kringelein: I'm going to live. I'm going to have a good time while I can. The Baron: That's my motto, Kringelein. A short lif...e and a gay one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no independence of law against National Socialism. Say to yourselves at every decision which you make: "How would the Fü...hrer decide in my place?" In every decision ask yourselves: "Is this decision compatible with the National Socialist conscience of the German people?" Then you will have a firm iron foundation which, allied with the unity of the National Socialist People's State and with your recognition of the eternal nature of the will of Adolf Hitler, will endow your own sphere of decision with the authority of the Third Reich, and this for all time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why, my skin hangs about me like an old lady's loose gown; I am withered like an old apple-j...ohn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
screenwriter Manchester was the residence of John Stark, a hero of two wars, and survivor of a third, and at his death the la...st but one of the American generals of the Revolution.... His monument stands upon the second bank of the river, about a mile and a half above the falls, and commands a prospect several miles up and down the Merrimack. It suggested how much more impressive in the landscape is the tomb of a hero than the dwellings of the inglorious living. Who is most dead,--a hero by whose monument you stand, or his descendants of whom you have never heard?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »