"The Moor's Last Sigh" Quotes

He had been let down by the weak mangling weaklings who were, as usual, the only political propositions actually elected.

They were listened to as symbols: it was what people needed them to be that counted.

No need to discuss it. Some things belong on the operating table, not in universities, and this is one of them.

They decorated themselves with the same arrogance others wear like rags.

You reinterpret literature to suit yourself.

Are we to bow before the absolute, or not at all?

Time does not grow tired. Time does not behave like a mere character on which one gets revenge.

One's own exaggerations are the opposite of other people's exaggerations.

Whatever else I have become, at least I'm pure: pure bastard, pure Moor, disinherited, thieving, unloved by those I love best.

Rage isn't seductive, it's uncontrollable.