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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
Joseph Stalin1878–1953“The Elections in St. Petersburg”, article in Sotsial-Demokrat No. 30 (January 1913)
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- Politics
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965
Well, speaking as a Christian, I would like to say that I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the Apostle Peale appalling.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Remarks to a Baptist convention in Texas during the 1952 presidential campaign
- Christianity
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894The New Arabian Nights (1882)
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting, David.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Kidnapped (1886), Chapter XVIIIIn context
Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Don’t eat pork. I’m sorry, what was that last one? Don’t eat pork? Is that the word of God, or is that pigs trying to outsmart everybody?
Jon Stewartborn 1962
I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.
Jon Stewartborn 1962Philadelphia Inquirer interview, April 22, 2007
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter XXIn context
It’s traumatizing for me to come to Washington during a Republican administration because I don’t have any Republican clothes.
Sharon Stoneborn 1958The Washington Post (June 20, 2001)
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- Politics
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Tom Stoppard1937–2025Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966), Ch. 2: A Couple of Deaths and Exits
It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.
Leo Strauss1899–1973“What Is Liberal Education?”, in Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968), p. 7
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- Philosophy
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh (August 12, 1720)
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- Money
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput, Chapter IVIn context
- War & Peace
You have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied, by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag, Chapter VIIn context
I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag, Chapter VIIn context
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