#classic

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. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.


Taylor Caldwell


#classic-literature #inspirational-fiction #literary #inspirational

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.


Ovid


#classics #greek #humans #intelligence #metamorphoses

Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.


Charlotte Brontë


#love

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.


Jane Austen


#jane-austen #love #marianne-dashwood #sense-and-sensibility #world

But on the minus side, Zeus had also had his share of fiascos. He swallowed Metis, the Goddess of Wisdom & Prudence, & thus was responsible for the disappearance of both wisdom & prudence in Olympus. And he could not keep his hands off all those lovely Titanesses, Giantesses, Nymphs & Mortal women whom he loved or secretly loved. He took them to wife, even when they were unwilling, such as Metis, Leto, Asteria & Nemesis. And he raped them, even when they were not aware that they were being raped, such as Alcmene, Danae, Io & Europa. And these were only a few of his many love affairs that Hera knew. What he had managed to keep secret from Hera was his greatest love affair of all- his affair with the Goddess of Love, which had already resulted in the mis-begetting of the monstrous love-child, Priapus.


Nicholas Chong


#love

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?


Jane Austen


#sports

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill) "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one." — Churchill's response


George Bernard Shaw


#play

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?


Mark Twain


#simile #insult

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.


Mae West


#insult

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.


Moses Hadas


#books #classic-insult #irony #literary-criticism #time