Reese's Half-Hidden Quote Blog

There's an old saying in business: no indictment, no problem.

Some men are by nature insatiable in drinking wine, others are born cormorants of books.

A man first quarrels with his father about three quarters of a year before he was born.

Christianity was true in so far as it had fostered beauty.

You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

I was looking for a job and then I found a job and Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now.

It is a complex fate to be an American.

The end of a novel is like the end of the world; it is good to put it off.

Vita militum est male vivere et bene bibere.

There's problems in these times but woo! none of them are mine

time and love and doom, Those great blue grottoes where the rank intruder Is moved to think in rhyme.

ἅπαντʹ ἐπαχθῆ πλὴν θεοῖσι κοιρανεῖν

Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

A Russian is a Russian even if you fry them in butter.

And as the same stomach does not always relish the same kind of food, the same mind is not always to be fed on the same kind of writing.

We are on the edge of an abyss. But since then we have made a huge step forward.

Ah! Still, let's not overtax our brains. We'll play billiards--live like Tolstoy, spot of ploughing, then back to the novel!

...the tale was sure to answer, either as a stimulant or a soporific.

Don't take it as a matter of course, but as a remarkable fact, that pictures and fictitious narratives give us pleasure, occupy our minds.

I am aware of the pejorative associations of the word 'escapist,' but I insist that we need all the escapism we can get and even that isn't going to be enough.