Quotes About Syme

#1. Perfectly," replied Syme; "always be comic in a tragedy.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. Syme had ceased to exist: he had never existed.

George Orwell

#3. The poet will be discontented even in the streets of heaven. The poet is always in revolt."
"There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. When the President asks you to do something, you'd be surprised how keen you are to oblige, Syme said.

Matthew Reilly

#5. Is," said Syme serenely, "the truth is I am a Sabbatarian.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance."
"Eh?" said Syme, staring.
"The soldier must be calm in the thick of the battle," pursued the policeman. "The composure of an army is the anger of a nation.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. There are degrees of seriousness," replied Syme. "I have never doubted that you were perfectly sincere in this sense, that you thought what you said well worth saying, that you thought a paradox might wake men up to a neglected truth.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. It was a good hanging," said Syme reminiscently. "I think it spoils it when they tie their feet together. I like to see them kicking. And above all, at the end, the tongue sticking right out, and blue a quite bright blue. That's the detail that appeals to me.

George Orwell

#9. Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. You don't expect me," he said, "to revolutionize society on this lawn?"
Syme looked straight into his eyes and smiled sweetly.
"No, I don't," he said; "but I suppose that if you were serious about your anarchism, that is exactly what you would do.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. What are we going to do?" asked the Professor.
"At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. The airliner-sized dragon blew apart in a monumental spray of blood and pulp. Great chunks of flesh the size of boulders rained down from the sky.
"The empire is striking back," Ambassador Syme observed, peering out the window beside CJ.

Matthew Reilly

#13. It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.'
By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!

G.K. Chesterton

#14. Syme strolled with her to a seat in the corner of the garden, and continued to pour out his opinions. For he was a sincere man, and in spite of his superficial airs and graces, at root a humble one. And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely. He

G.K. Chesterton

#15. Individuals capture attention and engross history, but the most revolutionary changes in Roman politics were the work of families or of a few men.

Ronald Syme

#16. The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield."

~ Duncan Sinclair, from The Outcast Highlander

R.L. Syme

#17. Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.

Cassandra Clare

#18. Release your past into the universe and embrace your future with opened arms.

Delma Pryce

#19. Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.

Ronald Syme

#20. The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

Ronald Syme

#21. Enlargement will also be high on the agenda with potential invitations for accession being made at the summit

Anonymous

#22. For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony ...

Lotte Lehmann

#23. I'll have you know, I actually got a speeding ticket last year. 'For driving under the speed limit?

Jill Shalvis

#24. In matters of literary and historical appraisement, one cannot operate with the methods of a laboratory or furnish the proof to be demanded in a court of law. The best is only the probable. Any who raise complaint have an easy remedy: to offer something better, something coherent and constructive.

Ronald Syme

#25. Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

Ronald Syme

#26. Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.

Brian Redman

#27. A democracy cannot rule an empire. Neither can one man, though empire may appear to presuppose monarchy. There is always an oligarchy somewhere, open or concealed.

Ronald Syme

#28. Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.

Deepak Chopra

#29. The custom of prefixing or appending to historical narratives an estimate of the character and personality of the principal agent is of doubtful advantage at the best of times - it either imparts a specious unity to the action or permits apology or condemnation on moral and emotional grounds.

Ronald Syme

#30. Women have their uses for historians.

Ronald Syme

#31. Who you are is why you choose poorly, or fail to choose wisely.

Bryant McGill

#32. Rise to the challenge of bringing your dreams to life! Do not be discouraged by resistance, be nourished by it. Success is the experience of rising to the level of your true greatness.

Steve Maraboli

#33. Character isn't all about becoming a saint or perfect. No one is perfect! There are areas we all are working on to improve and fine tune..

Assegid Habtewold

#34. You've changed me forever. And I'll never forget you.

Kiera Cass

#35. Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

Alfred North Whitehead

#36. Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

G.K. Chesterton