To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

Smiles are the language of love.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Children always turn to the light.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

No one but a fool is always right.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?

In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.