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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.


Elizabeth Hardwick


#brutality #bureaucratic #city #coherent #come

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.


Laurence Housman


#arrested #avoid #been #bound #charged

For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.


Ferdinand Mount


#any #been #cautious #century #character

Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail.


Kurt Vonnegut Jailbird


#love #love

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.


Gail Carriger


#humor #marriage #humor

I profess not to know how women’s hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. Some seem to have but one vulnerable point, or door of access; while others have a thousand avenues, and may be captured in a thousand different ways. It is a great triumph of skill to gain the former, but a still greater proof of generalship to maintain possession of the latter, for man must battle for his fortress at every door and window. He who wins a thousand common hearts is therefore entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.


Washington Irving


#courtship #humor #humor-relationships #women #humor

That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?


Nicholas Sparks


#humor #romantic #humor

You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect.


Lawrence Goldstone


#respect #respect

Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.


Courtney Milan


#devotion #hold-on #love #never-let-go #rockslide

A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted.


Robert Reich


#democracy #first-amendment #government #politics #public-assembly