Philippa Schuyler Quotes & Sayings

There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity. — Veronica Roth

When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his. — Ella Maillart

The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish by that test the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn it into, something that is alien to its nature. — Carl Von Clausewitz

He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. — Moliere

The Russians are very much more up and down than the French. — Carine Roitfeld

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. — Oswald Spengler