Orteil Quotes & Sayings

Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort. — Richard Steele

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear! — Ida Tarbell

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. — Franz Kafka

Is that a banana in your lunch box, or are you just pleased to see me? — H.M. Forester

Swedes don't like to ask favors of each other: they keep their problems to themselves and suffer in silence. Being duktig is one facet of this: if you are duktig then you don't need any help, and as duktighet is the ultimate ideal for Swedes; to ask for help - or even to give it - is a kind of low-level social taboo. — Michael Booth