M.K. Alexander Quotes

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

The bullet is a fool, the bayonet is a fine chap.

The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.

[T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution.

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

Stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life.

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps and material good.

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

Take from others what you want, but never be a disciple of anyone.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

To all things clergic I am allergic.

If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities.

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.

Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration, it should be elevated through pure form.

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution....This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.

Combination is a soul of chess.

You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.

What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.