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Small: Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time ones never in contact wit
Aldous Huxley
"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
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Small: Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure
Aldous Huxley
"Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
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Small: Several excuses are always less convincing than one
Aldous Huxley
"Several excuses are always less convincing than one"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
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Small: Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs
Aldous Huxley
"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
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Small: Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors
Aldous Huxley
"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
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Small: Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. M
Aldous Huxley
"Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
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Small: Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does no
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and biga
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: A room without books is like a body without a soul
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"A room without books is like a body without a soul"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly the rich have always objected to being governed at al
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: Marriage is an adventure, like going to war
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy vi
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: Coincidences are spiritual puns
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Coincidences are spiritual puns"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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Small: The word must is not to be used to princes
Elizabeth I
"The word must is not to be used to princes"
Elizabeth I, Royalty
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Small: There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten death
Elizabeth I
"There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible"
Elizabeth I, Royalty
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Small: To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that be
Elizabeth I
"To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it"
Elizabeth I, Royalty
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Small: I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married
Elizabeth I
"I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married"
Elizabeth I, Royalty
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Small: I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children
Elizabeth I
"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children"
Elizabeth I, Royalty
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Small: I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman
Elizabeth I
"I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman"
Elizabeth I, Royalty
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Small: God forgive you, but I never can
Elizabeth I
"God forgive you, but I never can"
Elizabeth I, Royalty
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Small: A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing
Elizabeth I
"A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing"
Elizabeth I, Royalty
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Small: Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew
Charles Dickens
"Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
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Small: Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire
Charles Dickens
"Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
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Small: Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrou
Charles Dickens
"Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
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Small: We forge the chains we wear in life
Charles Dickens
"We forge the chains we wear in life"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
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Small: There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated
Charles Dickens
"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
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Small: That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pitys small change in g
Charles Dickens
"That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
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Small: Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, a
Charles Dickens
"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
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Small: Oh the nerves, the nerves the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creat
Charles Dickens
"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
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Small: No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else
Charles Dickens
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
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Small: If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers
Charles Dickens
"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
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