Hierarchized Quotes & Sayings

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it ... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing. — Grace Paley

Murder is only killing in the wrong place. — Pat Barker

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her. — Jane Austen

Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it. — Patricia Wentworth

My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties. — Dave Allen

You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are but the last traces in a less philosophical age of the ideas which Plato taught his disciples existed in the spiritual world. — Charles Williams

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. — Ambrose Bierce

Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man's land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside the boundary traced by the oceans. Dimensions installed by a cosmogonic trilogy that leaves each term in its generic place. There remains the earth ancestress, a fourth term, that was once the most fertile, that has been progressively buried and forgotten beneath the architectonic of patriarchal sovereignty. And this murder erupts in the form of ambivalences that have constantly to be solved and hierarchized, in twinned pairs of more or less good doubles. — Luce Irigaray