Liam

“Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause,
But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Bogus Oxford men he could deal with, just as in his time he had known classics masters who had no Greek and parsons who had no divinity. Such men, confronted with proof of their deception, broke down and wept and left, or stayed on half-pay. But men who withheld genuine accomplishment—these were a breed he had not met but he knew already that he did not like them.”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

“You can't just go round murdering people. There are rules, Nimona.”
― N.D. Stevenson, Nimona

“The last French Bourbon to reign, Charles X, brother of the guillotined Louis XVI and of his brief successor, Louis XVIII, displayed a recurring type of folly best described as the Humpty-Dumpty type: that is to say, the effort to reinstate a fallen and shattered structure, turning back history. In the process, called reaction or counter-revolution, the reactionary right is bent on restoring the privileges and property of the old regime and somehow retrieving a strength it did not have before.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam