“To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.”
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Infamous
“His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.”
Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan
“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”
Plato
The Republic
“My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.”
Julius Evola
“To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground