Spatulate Leaf Quotes & Sayings

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law. — Herbert Hoover

The man is a humbug - a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: Walter Helwich merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull ... — C.S. Lewis

He may have been waiting a long while, in snow or rain, yet his joy at my final appearance knows no resentment at my faithlessness, though I have neglected him all day and brought his hopes to naught. — Thomas Mann

And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any. — Thomas Paine

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power. — Orville Wright

Lady, the Faith is here," he stated. "But we must build churches in our hearts, for surely those built in the world have all betrayed us. — Kage Baker

Yeah, well, your people happen to be soul-sucking demons. (Wulf)
You ever met a banker or a lawyer? Tell me who's worse, my Urian or one of them? At least we need the food; they do it just for profit margins. (Phoebe) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

all success cloaks a surrender — Simone De Beauvoir

A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets. — William Rounseville Alger

That most ancient of magics, the binding of a man by the use of his name, gripped him. — Robin Hobb