Ragione E Quotes & Sayings

There are, I believe, some who still deny that England is governed by an oligarchy. It is quite enough for me to know that a man might have gone to sleep some thirty years ago over the day's newspaper and woke up last week over the later newspaper, and fancied he was reading about the same people. In one paper he would have found a Lord Robert Cecil, a Mr. Gladstone, a Mr. Lyttleton, a Churchill, a Chamberlain, a Trevelyan, an Acland. In the other paper he would find a Lord Robert Cecil, a Mr. Gladstone, a Mr. Lyttleton, a Churchill, a Chamberlain, a Trevelyan, an Acland. If this is not being governed by families I cannot imagine what it is. I suppose it is being governed by extraordinary democratic coincidences. — G.K. Chesterton

Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire. — Vladimir Nabokov

The press in New York has tended to favor New Society in every period, and to take it seriously, if only because it provides news. — Tom Wolfe

Like a car that's old enough to be old but not old enough to be a classic, it would be years before people would again appreciate the old town square. — K. Martin Beckner

If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men. — Kirk Kerkorian

Reading and writing go hand in hand. — Sylvia Melvin

It's been said that we are shaped by our thoughts. If this is true, can you imagine where one healthy thought can lead each day? — Christine Caine