Top 22 Quotes About Edward Hyde
#1. All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#2. Devoid of any real liberty or justice, America and her children had fallen prey to what amounted to little more than a thinly veiled dictatorship. She now represented not the proud citadel of freedom, but the failed experiment of democracy.
Eric J. Martindale
#3. That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#4. I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.
A.J. Ayer
#5. If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#6. The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#8. Envy is a weed that grows in all soils and climates, and is no less luxuriant in the country than in the court; is not confined to any rank of men or extent of fortune, but rages in the breasts of all degrees.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#9. It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#13. Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#14. There is good science you can do in space. There is stuff there you cannot do on Earth and we can gain understanding from it.
Helen Sharman
#15. Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#16. All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
Ambrose Bierce
#17. Let those who are actually concerned with peace observe that capitalism gave mankind the longest period of peace in history - a period during which there were no wars involving the entire civilized world - from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Ayn Rand
#18. Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#19. Money will make you more of what you already are. If you're not a nice person, money's going to make you a despicable individual. If you're a good person, money's going to make you a better person.
Bob Proctor
#20. I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.
Paulo Coelho