Contextualizing Examples Quotes & Sayings

The encounter did not leave behind with Chief Inspector Heat that satisfactory sense of superiority the members of the police force get from the unofficial but intimate side of their intercourse with the criminal classes, by which the vanity of power is soothed, and the vulgar love of domination over our fellow creatures is flattered as worthily as it deserves. — Joseph Conrad

The liar has many friends, and leads an existence of great loneliness. — Adrienne Rich

Oh dear Sunday, I am so happy that I want your entire wisdom at my dinner table. — Santosh Kalwar

It seems characteristic of the mind of man that the repression of what is natural to humans must be abhorred, but that what is natural to an infinitely more natural animal must be confined within the bounds of a reason peculiar only to men
more peculiar sometimes than seems reasonable at all. — Beryl Markham

I don't know who had the bright idea of teaching pneumonia how to walk, but I'd like to find that dunderhead before he decides he wants to teach it how to drive. — Ellen DeGeneres

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars. — Phil Angelides

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first. — Blaise Pascal

In order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection. E. M. Forster — Kimberly McCreight