John Wilkes Booth Diary Quotes & Sayings

Absurdity of absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. — Herman Melville

To pass over grief, they say, the Italian sleeps; the Frenchman sings; the German drinks; the Spaniard laments, and the Englishman goes to plays. What then does the Scot?' To Jerott's mind sprang, unbidden, a picture of the sword Archie Abernethy was trying to clean at this moment below.

'This one,' he said, 'kills. — Dorothy Dunnett

When I wiped you from the book of memory, I did not know I was striking out half my life — Nizar Qabbani

No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage. — James Gibbons

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one. — Dalton Trumbo

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. — John Milton

If its deep mystery we would sound; — Lao-Tzu

For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits. — Marcel Proust