The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have ...missed something--war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not... stop being violent we have no future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, ...the latter to preserve themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I should prefer a Woman that is agreeable in my own Eye, and not deformed in that of the World, to a celebrated Beauty. If you mar...ry one remarkably beautiful, you must have a violent Passion for her, or you have not the proper Taste of her Charms; and if you have such a Passion for her, it is odds but it will be imbittered [sic] with Fears and Jealousies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »