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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970
- Virtue
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 18: The Taming of Power
- Democracy
I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J. D. Salinger1919–2010Seymour: An Introduction (1959)
- Quotations
Slang is the language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands⁠—and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg1878–1967
Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
George Santayana1863–1952
- Debate
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
George Santayana1863–1952The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. III, Reason in Religion, Ch. VI
- Debate
- Religion
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
José Saramago1922–2010The Cave (2000), p. 124
- Truth & Lies
It is Ill-manners to silence a Fool, and Cruelty to let him go on.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Moral Thoughts and Reflections
- Clever Jabs
Most men make little other use of their Speech than to give evidence against their own Understanding.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Moral Thoughts and Reflections
- Intelligence
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Dorothy L. Sayers1893–1957Often credited to Peter Wimsey
- Quotations
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860“On Style”, The Art of Literature (trans. T. Bailey Saunders)
- Writing
The best ideas are common property.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XII: On old age, Line 11.
- Ideas
- Quotations
I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot — we inhale from our Bartlett’s.
Rod Serling1924–1975Speech at Moorpark College, Moorpark, California (December 3, 1968).
- Age
- Quotations
All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury1671–1713Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), Vol. 1, pp. 39-40; “Sensus Communis”.
- Debate
- Liberty
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (1600–1), Act I, scene iii.In context
- Advice