“Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!” KnowsShouldStatesSinLordKnowledgeIgnoranceFairsFoundationEnvyProofRuinsObedienceForbiddenSuspiciousParadise Lost Book 9Paradise Lost Book 2 Book:Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books Source: Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books
“Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again: That she may long live here, God say amen!” MayLongBookPoorLordBloodLandTasteFairsIncreaseEnglandEdgesWoundsStreamsBloodyGraciousTraitorTreasonAmen Book:The plays of William Shakespeare Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing could be less true. He slept with East Enders who were procured for him by Lord Alfred Douglas. He knew them only 'in Braille' - the curtains were never drawn back in the rooms in Oxford where he met those boys. It was the most sordid life you can imagine. And he was bleating about love and dragging the fair name of Mr. Plato into the trial - after a life like that?” YoungNamesRoomsLordBoysImagineMetsFairsEastTrialsThrownOscarsPlatoCurtainsOxfordWildeEnderNoblemenBraille Author:Quentin Crisp
“I've done a fair amount of that stuff... when we did 'Lord of the Rings' the transformation sequence from Smeagol to Gollum was a 19-hour make-up job. You have to have a kind of zen button that you press and allow the mind to be focused in a certain way.” WayMindKindDoneJobsCertainStuffHoursLordAmountFairsTransformationPressesFocusedRingsButtonsSequence Author:Andy Serkis