“But, learn that although all men are for sale, they don’t sell themselves to all buyers.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, quote from Prince of Foxes
“Curiosity, however sharp, must wait on dignity.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, quote from Prince of Foxes
“Orsini did not wait for compliments. Reserve is best countered by reserve.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, quote from Prince of Foxes
“And all of this from what source? A wayside farm in the Polesine. It illustrates the adage that the deeper the dung, the richer the rose. Who remembers the dung when the rose has blossomed?”
― Samuel Shellabarger, quote from Prince of Foxes
“Your Excellence, it is not usually the obvious that is dangerous.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, quote from Prince of Foxes
“It’s what I’ve always said. To be alive is a reflection on one’s character.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, quote from Prince of Foxes
“He realized all at once that ambition and love might not make good bedfellows, that a choice between them might be necessary.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, quote from Prince of Foxes
“Speak again with Messer Simone and fish up what you can. Fair weather or foul, it’s the part of wisdom to be prepared.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, quote from Prince of Foxes
“As there can be no peace among individual men where there is no law, so there can be no peace among states who are subject to no law. Treaties are futile; our holy religion itself fails to secure peace. The curse of Italy—it may be of the world—is that cities and states acknowledge no law superior to themselves. For only where law is, there is peace.”
― Samuel Shellabarger, quote from Prince of Foxes
Samuel Shellabarger
Born place: in Washington D.C., The United States
Born date May 18, 1888
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“But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.”
― Jeffery Deaver, quote from The Bone Collector
“Jesus," Dante interjected when the heavy quiet in the vehicle seemed endless. "All this touchy feely is making me itchy to kill something. How about we quit jerking each other off and go blow the roof off this mutha?”
― Lara Adrian, quote from Kiss of Midnight
“Ronald Spiers: The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, quote from Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
“I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.”
― Nelson Mandela, quote from Long Walk to Freedom
“No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we can understand the world without becoming entirely overwhelmed by it.”
― Carl Sagan, quote from Contact
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