Merwyn Haskett > Merwyn's Quotes

“You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

“But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee Came not all hell broke loose?
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― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.”
― Juvenal, The Satires

“A life which does not go into action is a failure.”
― Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History, abridged

“I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked by Himself: And Other Stories

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

“Man's character is his fate.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live to the point.”
― Michael de Montaigne

“Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights