Meliorated Quotes & Sayings

I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any ... I hope this will be the last one for a long while. — Beth Gibbons

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience. — Ernest Hemingway,

Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power. — Mary Hays

God bless my soul! No apple pie. — Robert Oliver

In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown. — Heather Brooke

Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them. — Plato

People still laugh at me in politics, they think I won't make it; but I think I will, after Harold Wilson, I will be your next Chancellor to become Prime Minister. — Imran Khan