“To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.”
Jean-Francois Regnard
“I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.”
Blaise Pascal
“Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.”
Calvin Trillin
“To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“It's a dispensation. It's meant to be observed in an appropriate way.”
Kathleen Hohl
“On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.”
Cecil Beaton
“Everybody knew that, basically, being a sweeper, it's my role to watch the whole team and dispense directions to everybody.”
Shep Harris
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