Related quotes
- Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
- We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
- We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
- Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
- Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.