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  • Art is the accomplice of love.

    Remy de Gourmont (1921). “Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas”
  • A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

    Hands   Prison   Goods  
    Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.164, Rowman & Littlefield
  • ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.

    Views   Knowing   Matter  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2352, Delphi Classics
  • For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it, alone in the history of the West, constituted a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting facade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.

  • That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.

    Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Under Islamic precepts, men cannot enter the home of a woman who they don`t know, and so they need the women in this effort to enter homes where they`re - where they`re looking for possible women terrorists, women accomplices of Boko Haram, and trying to either disarm them or get them out of that movement.

    Islamic   Home   Men  
    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

    Love   Art   Art Is  
    Remy de Gourmont (1921). “Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas”
  • [My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.

    Muriel Spark (2001). “Loitering with Intent”, p.60, New Directions Publishing
  • It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.

    Children   Memories   War  
    Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.5, Macmillan
  • Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the people decide only which of the oligarchs preselected for them as viable candidates will wield the whip used to flog them and will command the legion of willing accomplices and anointed lickspittles who perpetrate the countless violations of the people's natural rights. Meanwhile, the masters soothe the masses by assuring them night and day that they - the plundered and bullied multitudes who compose the electorate - are themselves the government.

  • When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

    Life   Evil   Triumph  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4190, Library of Alexandria
  • To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

    Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume
  • If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.

    World   Want   Bed  
    "The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 3, sc. 6, 1951.
  • APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.12, 谷月社
  • I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.

    Race   Hands   No Friends  
  • It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.

    Mean   Echoes   Littles  
  • The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

    Lying   Sacrifice   Self  
  • I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

    Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken
  • At one o’clock, the ever-logical Right-Eye Grand Steward woke up to discover that during his sleep his left-eyed counterpart had executed three of his advisors for treason, ordered the creation of a new carp pool and banned limericks. Worse still, no progress had been made in tracking down the Kleptomancer, and of the two people believed to be his accomplices, both had been released from prison and one had been appointed food taster. Right-Eye was not amused. He had known for centuries that he could trust nobody but himself. Now he was seriously starting to wonder about himself.

    Sleep   Eye   Two  
    Frances Hardinge (2012). “A Face Like Glass”, p.109, Pan Macmillan
  • Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

    Two   Disease   Poverty  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.314, e-artnow
  • If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.

    War   Fate   People  
    "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)" by Mao Zedong, Ch. 6, 1964.
  • However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2007). “Infidel”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
  • The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

  • The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime

    Men   Actors   Film  
    Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.75, Open Road Media
  • This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.

    War   Liars   White  
  • Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?

    Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.27, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.

    Love   Heart   Reflection  
  • What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

  • the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

    Mistake   Past   Illusion  
    Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • And it's significant that he has been using the, you know, language of betrayal in his rhetoric about Turkey. He called the shoot down a treacherous stab in the back by an accomplice of the terrorists. And that suggests that there could still be some harsh revenge in store for Turkey.

    "2 Willful Leaders Heighten Tensions Between Russia, Turkey". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.
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