💬 Quotes

"Always say less than necessary."

"When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir up all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity."

"Never outshine the master."

"Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit."

"The best deceivers utilize a broad cloud of false sincerity to camouflage their intentions."

"Everything depends on the art of putting yourself in other people's shoes."

"Vor dem Gesetz steht ein Türhüter. Zu diesem Türhüter kommt ein Mann vom Lande und bittet um Zutritt zum Gesetz."

"Das Verfahren gehört nun einmal zum Prozess."

"Wie ein Hund! sagte er, es war, als sollte die Scham ihn überleben."

"Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!"

"Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time, Is it as he will? well then, France shall rue."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"He that stands upon a slippery place makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up."

"The tackle of my heart is crack'd and burn'd, And all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail Are turn'd to one dry wither'd white leaf."

"This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself."

"It is impossible to express the general consternation of the poor people at this calamity; for as we were brought to the last extremity, it was not the plague only that afflicted them, but an absolute want of all things, especially of work."

"People began now to be sensible of their danger, and to reflect seriously upon their past lives; and indeed the dreadful terror of the disease made so strange an impression upon their minds that I think I never saw people more reformed."

"In these terrible cases, human natures are rendered frantic and desperate; and many appear to be the proper objects of just terror to themselves, and to abandon all humanity."

"Never was such a time or place known in these nations; hunger and thirst for bread and water was not so much the cry, as for life and health; and for those who were sick, for physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries."

"The face of London was now indeed strangely altered; I mean the whole mass of buildings, city, liberties, suburbs, Westminster, Southwark, and altogether: for all sorts of carriages and horses ceased to appear."