A Connecticut Yankee Quotes & Sayings

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. — Richard Russo

Eliza was stubborn as the year was long but she had a streak of honesty that rivaled any knight's. — Anonymous

A good ship is never tested in calm waters. — Richard Chenevix Trench

Time often sheds light on curious circumstances.
Something we thought was a crazy miscalculation may, in fact, turn out to be the key component to the winning play. — Jaime Buckley

Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest. — Bertolt Brecht

Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it? — Charles L. Allen

He is well paid that is well satisfied. — William Shakespeare

I'm taking you out before your ERA looks like a Texas heat wave. Let's talk after the game. — Jennifer Bernard

What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them. — Jacob Bannon

If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped. — Paul Johnson

He who writes this book in which hate is not hidden was formerly a pacifist...For him no disillusionment was ever greater or more sudden. It struck him with such violence that he thought himself no longer the same man. And yet, as it seems to him that in this state of hatred his conscience becomes diminished, he dedicates these pages, with emotion, to the man he used to be.
— Emile Verhaeren

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats. — John Mayer

I kissed her. I kissed her so that she could feely regret, my desire to do right, the way that she had a piece of me now and I wasn't letting go. I kissed her because I had to and kissing her made me feel better. — Jay Crownover

Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders. — Richard Branson

I am a border-ruffian from the State of Missouri. I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption. In me, you have Missouri morals, Connecticut culture; this, gentlemen, is the combination which makes the perfect man. — Mark Twain

I wasn't into the lunchbox and thermos ski slope, and that's where I was going. — Johnny Depp