English

Explore 7518 quotes originally in English

Sort

When two people take each other on terms of perfect equality, without the desire of one to control the other, to make the other subservient, it is a beautiful thing. It is the truest and highest state of life.

Susan B. Anthony

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Anthony, Susan B. “Champion of Her Sex.” Interviewed by Nellie Bly. New York World, 2 Feb. 1896.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Anthony, Susan B. “Champion of Her Sex.” The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: An Awful Hush 1895 to 1906, edited by Ann D. Gordon. Vol. 6, Rutgers University Press, 2013.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

Donald Trump

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Medium

Genre

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Trump, Donald. Announcement of presidential candidacy. 16 June 2015. Trump Tower, New York City, NY, USA.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Steve Jobs

Inviting John Sculley, then president of Pepsi, to join Apple.

More information about this quote

Speaker

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Jobs, Steve. Quoted in Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, by John Sculley and John A. Byrne. Harper & Row, 1987, ch. 3. Originally a comment made to persuade John Sculley to become Apple's CEO, c. 1983.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth

The Table Turned

There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Wordsworth, William. "The Tables turned; an Evening Scene, on the same subject." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, I. 15.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, William. "The Tables Turned." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 15.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

They are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.

Roger B. Taney

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

Dred Scott v. Sandford

There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database.

On American slaves and their descendants.

Read this opinion at supreme.justia.com.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Taney, Roger B. United States, Supreme Court. Dred Scott v. Sandford. United States Reports, vol. 60, 6 Mar. 1857, pp. 393-633. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/60/393/.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

On Heroes

Read The Hero as Divinity at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "The Hero as Divinity." 5 May 1840, London, England, UK. Lecture.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star.

Sinclair Lewis

Buy Elmer Gantry at Amazon Buy Elmer Gantry at Amazon

Read Elmer Gantry at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1927, ch. 20.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Signet, 2007, ch. 20.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Isabella Mary Beeton

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Beeton, Isabella. The Book of Household Management. S. O. Beeton Publishing, 1861, ch. 2.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters

Buy The Screwtape Letters Buy The Screwtape Letters

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942, ch. 29.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

Jeremy Bentham

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Bentham, Jeremy. Supply Without Burthen; or Escheat Vice Taxation. London: J. Debrett, 1795.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Bentham, Jeremy. "Supply Without Burthen; or Escheat Vice Taxation." Jeremy Bentham's Economic Writings, edited by Werner Stark. Vol. 1, Routledge, 2003.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

When the working day is done
Oh girls, they wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have fun

Cyndi Lauper

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Hazard, Robert. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." Performed by Cyndi Lauper. She's So Unusual. Portrait Records, 1983.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Douglas, Alfred Bruce. "Two Loves." The Chameleon, Dec. 1894.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Douglas, Alfred Bruce. "Two Loves." Two Loves and Other Poems. Bennett & Kitchel, 1990.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

Haste maketh waste.

John Heywood

Proverbs (Heywood)

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Heywood, John. The Proverbs of John Heywood. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, pt. 1, ch. 2.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?

William Wordsworth

Lines Written in Early Spring

There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Wordsworth, William. "Lines written in early spring." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. and A. Arch, 1798, st. 6.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, William. "Lines written in Early Spring." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, st. 6.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

Rome was not built in one day.

John Heywood

Proverbs (Heywood)

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Heywood, John. The Proverbs of John Heywood. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874, pt. 1, ch. 11.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

Buy The Education of Henry Adams at Amazon Buy The Education of Henry Adams at Amazon

Read The Education of Henry Adams at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 28.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 28.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is... If two laws conflict with each other, the Courts must decide on the operation of each... This is of the very essence of judicial duty.

John Marshall

Marbury v. Madison

Read this opinion at supreme.justia.com.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Marshall, John. United States, Supreme Court. Marbury v. Madison. United States Reports, vol. 5, 24 Feb. 1803, pp. 137-180. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/5/137/.

Citation text copied to clipboard.