Henry Delafield Quotes & Sayings

Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens. — Sheila Jeffreys

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person. — Jed S. Rakoff

The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind ... The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and classical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think. — Ryan Reynolds

Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money.
writers?
writers starved.
writers suicided.
writers went mad. — Charles Bukowski

Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever. — Frances O'Grady

I think the most profound beauty is found in what our hearts love. — Julianne Donaldson

What is called a good conscience is often but a dull one that gives no trouble when it ought to bark loudest; — George MacDonald

Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. — Bodie Thoene