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Alan Cardew • Lord Byron: The Perils and Glories of a Classical Education
George Orwell (from “Politics and the English Language”):
“Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
"A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet
‘The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.’
Louise Willder • Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
W.B. Yeats
Here Are 52 of My Favorite Quotes
Apart from his dinners and his coursing, Mr Vincy, blustering as he was, had as little of his own way as if he had been a prime minister: the force of circumstances was easily too much for him, as it is for most pleasure-loving florid men; and the circumstance called Rosamond was particularly forcible by means of that mild persistence which, as we
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
Lydgate could only say, ‘Poor, poor darling!’ but he secretly wondered over the terrible tenacity of this mild creature. There was gathering within him an amazed sense of his powerlessness over Rosamond. His superior knowledge and mental force, instead of being, as he had imagined, a shrine to consult on all occasions, was simply set aside on every
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” And thus was born one of the most famous quotations in history.
Brian Klaas • Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
Are full of passionate intensity.