WIST Quotations

Nash, Ogden -- “Inter-Office Memorandum,” I’m a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

Dave — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:41:09 +0000

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
And that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all.

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet
“Inter-Office Memorandum,” I’m a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

Goldsmith, Oliver -- “A City Night-Piece,” The Bee, #4 (27 Oct 1759)

Dave — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 17:56:22 +0000

Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.

Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774) Irish poet, playwright, novelist
“A City Night-Piece,” The Bee, #4 (27 Oct 1759)

Butcher, Jim -- Proven Guilty, ch. 41 (2006)

Dave — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:42:36 +0000

Most of the bad guys in the real world don’t know that they are bad guys. You don’t get a flashing warning sign that you’re about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren’t looking.

Jim Butcher (b. 1971) American author
Proven Guilty, ch. 41 (2006)

Poe, Edgar Allan -- Marginalia, June 1849 (1981)

Dave — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 13:08:07 +0000

In looking at the world as it is, we shall find it folly to deny that, to worldly success, a surer path is Villainy than Virtue.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor, literary critic
Marginalia, June 1849 (1981)