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Martin Luther King, Jr: A nation that...

Martin Luther King, Jr: A nation that...

A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: Before the Pilgrims...

Martin Luther King, Jr: Before the Pilgrims...

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Wherever there is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Wherever there is...

Wherever there is power there is age.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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MAJESTY, n. The...

MAJESTY, n. The...

MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand...

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METROPOLIS, n. A...

METROPOLIS, n. A...

METROPOLIS, n. A stronghold of provincialism.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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MEERSCHAUM, n. A...

MEERSCHAUM, n. A...

MEERSCHAUM, n. A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is made into tobacco pipes and smoked by...

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RABBLE, n. In...

RABBLE, n. In...

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like...

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SPOOKER, n. A...

SPOOKER, n. A...

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of...

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TWICE, adv. Once...

TWICE, adv. Once...

TWICE, adv. Once too often.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
-- Ambrose...

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WIT, n. The...

WIT, n. The...

WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it...

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TRICHINOSIS, n. The...

TRICHINOSIS, n. The...

TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

Source: The Devil's...

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E M Forster: To make us...

E M Forster: To make us...

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong...

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E M Forster: Yes, oh dear,...

E M Forster: Yes, oh dear,...

Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story.

Source: Aspects of the Novel,...

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E M Forster: The final test...

E M Forster: The final test...

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which...

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E M Forster: I distrust Great...

E M Forster: I distrust Great...

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel...

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John Steinbeck: I know this...

John Steinbeck: I know this...

I know this -- a man got to do what he got to do.

Source: The Grapes of...

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Evelyn Waugh: I think to...

Evelyn Waugh: I think to...

I think to be oversensitive about clich?s is like being oversensitive about table manners.

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Marquis de Sade: Never lose sight...

Marquis de Sade: Never lose sight...

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it...

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Graham Henry Greene: A solitary laugh...

Graham Henry Greene: A solitary laugh...

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

Source: Monsignor Quixote, Pt I....

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George Eliot: It seems to...

George Eliot: It seems to...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we...

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