“The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.”
Regretful feeling
Regretful Quotes — page 132 of 169
“It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.”
“The boys. The village boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clodpated dimdomed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway?”
“And what have I done?" What? WHAT?...You've stolen them." With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who "them" was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.”
“The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media to falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a priori ridiculous, or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books, discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest.”
“Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!”
“The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down ad be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe.”
“Omittance is no quittance.”
“What is done cannot be now amended.”
“Too early seen unknown, and known too late!”
“If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.”
“For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.”
“I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.”
“Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever Known to the moral world, Imagination.”
“Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.”
“Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.”
“Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.”
“I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.”
“The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.”
“The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.”