Permitted Quotes

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.