Scheibel Column Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen makes me detest all her characters, without reserve. Is that her intention? It is not believable. Then is it her purpose to make the reader detest her characters up to the middle of the book and like them in the rest of the chapters? That could be. That would be high art. It would be worthwhile, too. Some day I might examine the other end of her books and see. — Mark Twain

Sex x Technology = the Future. — J.G. Ballard

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost. — Ferdinand Foch

I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive. — Albert Camus

At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter. — Oswald Chambers

For my grief's so great
That no supporter but the huge firm earth
Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
(Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1) — William Shakespeare