#hast

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#compensate #cruel #discretion #display #employ

I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#crimes #encouraged #ghastly #horrible #i

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. ↗

— Robert Southey

#hasty #how #judgments #little #see

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. ↗

— Tacitus

#assured #best #done #evil #friends

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#friendship #secrecy

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it. ↗

— William Gurnall

#hast #less #more #soon #thou

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#give #give me #me #yet

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. ↗

— Karel Capek

#appoint #colonel #god #granted #great

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#first step #hasty #judgment #step

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#advances #deliberately #distant #haste #himself