Unfaded Brass Quotes & Sayings

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. — Winston S. Churchill

I write, but I also act. — Eric Bogosian

You have to write badly in order to write well. — William Faulkner

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one. — Honeysuckle Weeks

And few can deny that welfarism, taken to extremes, carries a whiff of do as you're told!: there were moments in postwar Scandinavia when the enthusiasm for eugenics and social efficiency suggested not just a certain insensitivity to recent history but also to the natural human desire for autonomy and independence. — Tony Judt

We never love a person, but only qualities. — Blaise Pascal