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Angela Carter quote: "Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but..."
Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different! Angela Carter
If reason be judge, no writer has produced such inconsistent characters as nature herself has. It must call for no small sagacity in a reader unerringly to discriminate in a novel between the inconsistencies of conception and those of life. As elsewhere, experience is the only guide here; but as no one man’s experience can be coextensive with what is, it may be unwise in every case to rest upon it. Herman Melville
It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people- with the single mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe. F. Scott Fitzgerald
...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face... "When You Are Old And Gray William Butler Yeats
Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His silence washed over me. I stood, closed my eyes, breathed out the relief that was too profound for words. Charlaine Harris
By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straight out. Very well. He has done it. Perhaps he can ride. But there is a way of looking at a halter that would provoke the most charitable of saints into a kick. Joseph Conrad
Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place. Gilbert K. Chesterton
When You Are Old"WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead... William Butler Yeats
John Fowles quote: "That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be..."
That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good. John Fowles
When we gaze at the magnificence of an ancient monument and ascribe its achievement to one man, we are guilty of spiritual embezzlement. We forget the army of craftsmen, unknown and unsung, who preceded him in the darkness of the ages, who toiled humbly - all heroism is humble - each contributing his small share to the common treasure of his time. A great building is not the private invention of some genius or other. It is merely a condensation of the spirit of a people. Ayn Rand
Dalton Trumbo quote: "When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear."
When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear. Dalton Trumbo
Groucho Marx quote: "Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999..."
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women. Groucho Marx
This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window. Charles Baudelaire
They're a funny lot, suicides. I remember one man who couldn't get any work to do and his wife died, so he pawned his clothes and bought a revolver; but he made a mess of it, he only shot out an eye and he got alright. And then, if you please, with an eye gone and a piece of his face blown away, he came to the conclusion that the world wasn't such a bad place after all, and he lived happily ever afterwards. Thing I've always noticed, people don't commit suicide for love, as you'd expect,... W. Somerset Maugham
George R. R. Martin quote: "What could he have done, one man against so many?"He could..."
What could he have done, one man against so many?"He could have tried, Brienne thought. George R. R. Martin

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