Showing posts with label Big Trouble In Little China. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Evelyn Waugh was a Man, or Glory for Dummies

I'm sitting in the corner with my dunce cap on, meditating on the theme of glory:

"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction." - Evelyn Waugh

"I have foresworn myself. I have broken every law I am sworn to uphold. I have become what I beheld and I am content that I have done right." - Elliot Ness (The fake one who looks like Costner)

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." - Flannery O'Connor

"Reason, thou see'st, hath all too short a wing." - Dante, in Paradiso

"Sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. And if we're not back by dawn, call the president." - Jack Burton

"There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. " - John Bunyan

"That'll do, pig. That'll do." - Farmer Hoggett