John Philpot Curran Quotes
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But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.
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It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
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The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.
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Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
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To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.
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Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.
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My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.
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His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.
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Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.
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When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
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I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.
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