Tom

“Love, if I think right, is a sickness of thought that takes place between two persons of different sex when they are in close proximity and open to each other. It arises among people from the burning desire, born of disordinate glances, to embrace and kiss each other and to have the solace of one another's body. A lover so burns and is so enraptured that he thinks of nothing else; he takes no account of bearing fruit, but strives only for delight.”
― Guillaume de Lorris, The Romance of the Rose

“The Hitler tyranny was doomed. Here, then, we might pause in thankfulness and take hope, not only for victory on all fronts and in all three elements, but also for a safe and happy future for tormented mankind.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Closing the Ring

“No violence, gentlemen – no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: Volume 1

“Mr Voss,’ he said, with no suggestion of criticism, ‘you have a contempt for God,
because He is not in your own image.”
― Patrick White, Voss