Quotations About / On: PEOPLE

  • 41.
    Marriage is socialism among two people.
    (Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941), U.S. author, columnist. First published in Mother Jones (1987). "Socialism in One Household," The Worst Years of Our Lives (1991).)
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  • 42.
    ... blameless people are always the most exasperating!
    (George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 12 (1871-1872). ....)
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  • 43.
    Happy the people whose annals are vacant.
    (Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian. History of the French Revolution, vol. 1, bk. 2, ch. 1 (1837). Quoting "a paradoxical philosopher" in reply to an aphorism of Montesquieu's, "Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.")
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  • 44.
    Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
    (Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Mrs. Cheveley, in An Ideal Husband, act 1.)
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  • 45.
    Not many people know that.
    (Michael Caine [Maurice Joseph Micklewhite] (b. 1933), British stage and screen actor. Catch-phrase and book title (1984) (1984). Caine's catch-phrase, which found its way into his films and was made the title of his memoirs, is said to have been his comment when habitually offering information garnered from The Guinness Book of Records.)
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  • 46.
    Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
    (Emily Brontë (1818-1848), British novelist, poet. Nelly, in Wuthering Heights, ch. 7 (1847).)
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  • 47.
    Religions get lost as people do.
    (Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Prague German Jewish author, novelist. The Fourth Notebook, February 26, 1918. The Blue Octavo Notebooks, ed. Max Brod, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. Exact Change, Cambridge, MA (1991). Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York, Schocken Books (1954).)
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  • 48.
    The bourgeois are other people.
    (Jules Renard (1864-1910), French novelist, playwright. journal entry, Jan. 28, 1890. Journal 1877-1910 (1977).)
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  • 49.
    Women are a colonized people.
    (Robin Morgan (b. 1941), U.S. author, feminist, and child actor. The Word of a Woman, part 1 (1992). Written in 1974.)
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  • 50.
    Self-pity makes people callous.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Twelfth Selection, New York (1993).)
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