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Letter "I" » intolerable
«Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.»
Author: A. P. Herbert
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«Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.»
«Flight is intolerable contradiction.»
«Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.»
«From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. . . . In the process, the US caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.»
«Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
annihilation, continued, distant, doomed, intolerable, sentient, sentient beings
«A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| About:
Affection,
Love,
Marriage
| Keywords:
affection, bind, cohabitation, continue, decay, for one, husband, intolerable, so long, toleration, tyranny, united, unworthy, unworthy of
«Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.»
«[Rudolph Valentino was] what is commonly called for want of a better name, a gentleman. In brief, Valentino's agony was the agony of a man of relatively civilized feelings thrown into a situation of intolerable vulgarity.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
agony, called for, commonly called, intolerable, in brief, relatively, Rudolph, vulgarity
«Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
after a fashion, alter, each month, every month, fashion, fashioning, form, intolerable, months, month by month, out of fashion, six, This month, ugliness
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