T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose
“The vilest of men and the wickedest of women likewise may do good from time to time, for love and compassion and pity may be found in even the blackest of hearts.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.”
Source: Heart of Darkness - Second Edition
“The villa on Fjellveien had quickly taught her that quiet could be a kind of noise.”
“The villa you claim will be home will be little more than a glorified prison cell. The servants you purpose to provide me with are little more than jailors to keep me there, and, when the time comes, men to bury me in an unmarked grave, far from friends, family or honour. No, Eamonn of Southwind, I will not trade my honour for a few more years of worthless existence.”
Source: Darker Skies Ahead
“The villa you claim will be my home will be little more than a glorified prison cell. The servants you purpose to provide me with are little more than jailors to keep me there, and, when the time comes, men to bury me in an unmarked grave, far from friends, family or honour. No, Eamonn of Southwind, I will not trade my honour for a few more years of worthless existence.”
Source: Darker Skies Ahead
“The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.”
“The village blazed in her mind and she felt stricken and bedazzled and unable to think whether she was good or bad or should be either.”
Source: Beauty's Punishment
“The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.”
“The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“The village hall is already packed by the time we arrive. Myreton’s local band, the appropriately-named Unbeerables, is on stage, playing covers of old rock songs, as they have at every party for the past thirty years, to a handful of spectacularly uninterested men in varying stages of intoxication. Right now, they’re about half-way through Bohemian Rhapsody, and while it’s not a song generally associated with Halloween, the way they’re murdering the operatic passage really is genuinely shocking, so credit where credit’s due, I suppose.”
Source: A Matter of Life and Death
“The village is coming back, like it or not.”
Source: 1984 in the 21st Century: An Anthology of Essays
“the village is lost in its veils
a few dreams lean over the lanes like
nettles”
Source: Falling Awake
“The village is ours--no it is the enemy's--now ours again--and yet once more the enemy's; but it is no longer a village, but a smoking mass of the ruins of houses.”
“The "Village" should always have the child's best interest at heart. Otherwise, it's not a village.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“The village was kissed by a kaleidoscope of colour – on the facades of restaurants, hostels and hotels, boutiques and bars. Fresh seafood was the star of every menu, of course, with the lobsters basically walking up the sand and straight onto the plate. But for me, the star of Caye Caulker wouldn’t be the sun or the sea, it would be him.”
Source: The Shift: A Memoir
“The villager, born humbly and bred hard,
Content his wealth, and poverty his guard,
In action simply just, in conscience clear,
By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear,
His means but scanty, and his wants but few,
Labor his business, and his pleasure too,
Enjoys more comforts in a single hour
Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power.”
Source: The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author
“The villagers considered it lucky to make the New Year's first money transaction with her because she was a prosperous person.”
Source: The Master's Daughter
“The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not.”
“The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.”
“The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months.”
“The villagers waver between exaltation and fear. Exaltation because everyone here believes that the French have no right to what the mountain lands offer to the Kabyles. Fear because of the word ‘we’, used so casually by this man that no one here has ever seen.”
Source: L'Art de perdre
“The villages slept as the capable man went down,
Time swished on the village clocks and dreams were alive,
The enormous gongs gave edges to their sounds,
As the rider, no chevalere and poorly dressed,
Impatient of the bells and midnight forms,
Rode over the picket docks, rode down the road,
And, capable, created in his mind,
Eventual victor, out of the martyr's bones,
The ultimate elegance: the imagined land.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.”
“The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.”
Source: I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
“The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliché villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don’t know. My Russian accent isn’t that great, and the muscles aren’t that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.”
“The villain may be good looking, but his smile is never quite right.”
“The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.”
“The villain's censure is extorted praise.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe
“The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related—yet.”
Source: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
“The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.”
“The villains in your life are shadows of your own psyche. If you are trying to chase away your shadow, you are moving away from light.”
“the villains traumatize me
but it’s the people who are kind that make me cry”
Source: The Breast Mountains Of All Time
“The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and their cunning—they wouldn't only be dangerous.
They would be irresistible.”
Source: Horrorscape
“The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.”
“The Vimalakirti Sutra states that, when one seeks the Buddhas' emancipation in the minds of ordinary beings, one finds that ordinary beings are the entities of enlightenment, and that the sufferings of birth and death are nirvana. It also states that, if the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds.”
“The vindictive flames of the sun scared me. But the fear of the great yellow eye paled compared to my body's longing for food, warmth, and someone to maybe understand me. Embrace. Grateful embrace. The warm touch of another human. That was my new goal if I ever needed one in the first place.”
Source: Her
“The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn.”
“The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them.”
“The vinegar in the beurre blanc sauce brought the creamy smoothness of the sea urchin into even starker relief. As the warm sea urchin was crushed on the surface of her tongue, it was transformed into sea-flavoured cream that blended seamlessly with the similarly rich taste of the flan pastry, redolent with egg yolk.”
Source: Butter
“The vineyard country, russet, reddish, carmine-brown in this season.
A blue outline of hills above a fertile valley.
It's warm as long as the sun does not set, in the shade cold returns.
A strong sauna and then swimming in a pool surrounded by trees.
Dark redwoods, transparent pale-leved birches.
In their delicate network, a sliver of the moon.
I describe this for I have learned to doubt philosophy
And the visible world is all that remains.”
“The Vintner's Guide to Precisely Categorizing the Wines of France mentioned all sorts of incredibly nuanced aromas in very expensive wine: slate, bark, cherries, strange herbs, all of which she had to imagine, since cidre and local vin ordinaire were all they had in the village.”
Source: As Old as Time
“The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.”
Source: Tyranny of Words
“The Violation of your own Privacy isn't Authenticity”
“The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.”
“The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.”
“The Violence Against Women Act protects the lives of tens of thousands of domestic violence victims. But the U.S. must also support gender equality around the world, and that means acknowledging that some nations we consider to be our friends are no friends to women.”