Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Norman Douglas

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• Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Power
  • Always
  • Never

• Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Years
  • Rich
  • Last

• Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Sometimes
  • Working
  • Skills

• It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.

  

  Barbara Hambly
  • Up
  • Love
  • Books

• The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Bible
  • More
  • Concrete

• But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Friends
  • Friend
  • Dog

• Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Champion

• ‘But you like her, don’t you?’ asked Howarth. ‘You like Mrs Connor?’ For himself, thought Howarth, he did not particularly like Mrs Connor. He desired Mrs Connor, however.

  

  Anthony Burgess

• It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

  

  Aesop
  • Distance
  • Brave

• Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don’t know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Good
  • Bad

• Monetary policy causes booms and busts.

  

  Edward C. Prescott

• Fashion is constantly evolving throughout the seasons and within various cultural changes, but the one thing that has stayed constant is how I always want my style to be an authentic, intrinsic part of myself.

  

  Liu Wen
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Nice
  • Funeral

• I like Joaquin Phoenix. He's an amazing actor and he's so buff.

  

  Katie Leung
  • Amazing
  • Phoenix

• Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

  

  Anton Yelchin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Relationship

• But the net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.

  

  David Harvey
  • Hand

• I actually share one thing with Whitney Houston, which is, I also have sweating issues.

  

  Kathy Griffin

• I don't love cinematography that's very flashy because I find that it keeps the audience from becoming a part of the film; it becomes sort of self-reflective.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Film
  • Audience
  • Find

• I would like to see an agreement that recognizes that we live on the same planet and that some interests, such as human rights, must be universal and that all religions must be respected.

  

  Ninian Smart
  • Respect
  • Religions
  • Human Rights

• I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not ask motorists to pay more, why not ask electricity consumers to pay more and then at the end of the year you can take your invoices to the tax office and get a rebate of the carbon tax you've paid.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Price
  • Consumers
  • Carbon

• Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • People
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

  

  Norman Douglas
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Honest