#lt

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#bell #difficult #dinner #make #out

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cruelty #intellectual #kid #kind #perhaps

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#even #great #kind #loses #other

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#eventually #explain #how #may #philosophy

So, sweeting, why were you threatening to throw Tate out of the house? What did he say?” Leather brushed her chin as he tipped it up. Serious dark eyes met hers. “What did he say?” She glanced around; surely the footmen were too far away to hear. “He wanted to join us in our bed.” “I’ll run him through.” “No! Perhaps he only said it to goad you into a duel. Perhaps it was intended as a way to kill you.” “It was an insult to you, love. That can’t be ignored.” “And so you rush inexorably toward death. I don’t care if he stands on a Drury Lane stage and calls me a courtesan, I won’t have you risking your life. ↗

— Sharon Page

#humor #insult #death

I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done. ↗

— Brian Baird

#done #family #find #i #increasingly

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily. ↗

— Anita Baker

#approval #became #felt #like #only

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely. ↗

— Josephine Baker

#even #frenchmen #i #insult #like

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#ago #been #being #civilization #difficulties

I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama. ↗

— Tom Baker

#good #good drama #i #interested #looking