(68 quotes found)
“The tragedy of a man who has found himself out”
James Matthew Barrie
“Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.”
“I know I'm not clever but I'm always right.”
“Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.”
“A young Scotsman of your ability let loose upon the world with 300 pounds, what could he not do? It's almost appalling to think of; especially if he went among the English”
“You've forgotten the grandest moral attribute of a Scotsman, Maggie, that he'll do nothing which might damage his career”
“In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.”
“The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.”