#rca

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ashamed #end #immorality #morality #staircase

He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#brutal #brutality #came #elegant #found

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#big #bottom #down #dramatically #fall

Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally. ↗

— Megan Fox

#i think #literally #obviously #people #quite

Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet. ↗

— Alberto Sordi

#failings #full #greet #italians #like

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#america #either #europe #europeans #few

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#arcane #concealed #obvious #step #toward

Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor

Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?" Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #clean #dirt #humor #isabelle-lightwood

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#childhood #father #good #good childhood #happy person