Emotions and Feelings

The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

The untold want by life and land ne’er granted,

Imagination! who can sing thy force?

He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface.

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had “troubles,” frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had “complications.” To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years with “troubles,” but they almost always succumbed to “complications.”

[ Flower Belle Lee, played by Mae West, replying to judge’s question, “Are you trying to show contempt for the court?” :] No, I’m doing my best to hide it.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have a graveannouncement to make. Incredible as it mayseem, strange beings who landed in New Jersey tonight are the vanguard of an invading armyfrom Mars.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

But keep the wolf far hence that’s foe to men,

[ After Randolph Churchill’s lung was removedand found not to have malignancies :] A typicaltriumph of modern science to find the onlypart of Randolph that was not malignant andremove it.

Any one who has been to an English publicschool will always feel comparatively at home in prison.

Resistance is the secret of joy!

Resistance is the secret of joy!

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that’swho She thinks we all are.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

A seeming team that was meaningless in terms of the way God gets things done, a textbook example of what Bokonon calls a granfalloon . Other examples of granfalloons are the Communist party, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Electric Company, the International Order of Odd Fellows—and any nation, anytime, anywhere.

Le sens commun est fort rare .

I want my attorney, my tailor, my valets, andeven my wife to believe in God, and I fancy that then I’ll be robbed and cuckolded less.

Toutes les histoires anciennes, comme le disait un de nos beaux esprits, ne sont que des fables convenues .

In this world we run the risk of having tochoose between being either the anvil or thehammer.

If this is the best of all possible worlds, whatare the others like?