“Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard as a crime second only to an attack on the tribal chieftain cannot be regarded as wanting in cultivated feeling.” PeopleMeanFeelingsCrimeCivilizationSavagesTheftHarpsCelticBards Book:Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts Source: Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts
“Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.” MenMayDoeReasonFeelingsUnderstandingChallengesCrimeShapesClaimsSuicideFortuneSpeciesSuperiorsCombatHeroismJustifiedTrue Hero Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.” KnowsReasonFeelingsActionWomenKnow HowHappenedCrimeIllusionTraitsAdmirableBaseness Author:Honore de Balzac
“The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.” StillsFeelingsCultureLiteratureStyleCrimeMassMurderIgnorantPossessedUngratefulPopular CulturePoisoning Book:Letters of George Sand Source: Letters of George Sand