Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Scrawny little mundane bastard.

Cassandra Clare

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.

Bill Kristol

Ugly and deformed people have great need of unusual virtues, because they are likely to be extremely uncomfortable without them. (Book V.).

George Eliot

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

John Gay

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Oscar Wilde

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play thefool no where but in's own house.

William Shakespeare

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power let fortune's bubbles rise and fall who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

Andy Warhol

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

Edith Wharton

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

Lisa Alther

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Adlai Stevenson

Whatever demon invented stiletto-heeled boots should roast in hell...

Cherise Sinclair