30 ordspråk av Stephen Vizinczey
Stephen Vizinczey
 Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth |
| Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. |
| The dream of a crook is a man with a dream. |
| The good conscience of the wicked rest on all the villainies they refrain form committing. |
| The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. |
| There are millions of people who think that having heard about something is the same as knowing it, and their notion of culture is a mixture of elegant lifestyle and big names. |
| To be jealous of a woman one doesn't love is the most ridiculous form of vanity, but Hardwick, surrounded by people whose livelihood depended on him, had no idea that he could be ridiculous. |
| Watching him, she forgot to answer. |
| We live under the tyranny of various professional groups, and all the 'influence' we could bring to bear on the running of schools, trains or power stations isn't sufficient to move a feather. |
| We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them. |
| When too many things are taken for granted, it isnext to impossible to perceive the truth. |
| When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness. |
| When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness. |
| With professionals she was professional: she concentrated on looking unimpressed. |
| Women cannot always flow, and even when they do, they well up slowly, while men are quick as torrents - they are primed by nature to burst forth at different times... the twenty-minute gap, the abyss between the sexes. |
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