Carole Nelson Douglas Quotes

Murder before impropriety! ... It never fails to shock me - what a properly brought-up Englishwoman will condone to ensure her blessed propriety.

Carole Nelson Douglas

• Murder
• Shock
• Propriety
• Englishwoman
• Impropriety

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• The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

  

  Barry White
  • Truth
  • Thought
  • Innocent

• It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Theater
  • Delight
  • Shock

• I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Trump
  • Ask

• Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Point
  • Gifts
  • Shock

• When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Hit

• The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

  

  Weegee
  • Beautiful
  • Society
  • Photograph

• Right now, I'm just shocked by it all, the way that it ended. This is weird all the way around. But that's the way it goes. It just got away from us.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Way
  • Weird
  • Shock

• That should shock and awaken every American. You have to question what's going on here & The government acts as if they're oblivious to this & The entire enterprise is collapsing.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • American
  • America
  • Question

• The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Television
  • Sense
  • Shock

• War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • War
  • Destruction
  • Murder

• What do you know what goes on inside a man's mind? Outside he may look like a gentleman, but inside ' e may 'ave the 'ankering for murder.

  

  Lester Cole
  • Mind
  • May
  • Gentleman

• In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • Power
  • Insecurity
  • Murder

• I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.

  

  Haj Amin al-Husseini
  • War
  • Brother
  • Murder

• One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Hero
  • Murder
  • Millions

• What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • May
  • War
  • Gold

• I was disappointed and in a little bit of shock. I had a really hard time with a couple of jumps in the warm-up and I just couldn't get over it. I definitely didn't think I was going to get any medal at all at the end of the program, so it was a nice surprise.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Disappointed
  • Shock
  • Jumps

• If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Death
  • Justice
  • Murder

• Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

  

  Socrates
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Murder

• Jerry, Jerry...he's kind of got a feminine side to him...he's in touch with his feminine side.

  

  Mike Inez Black Label Society
  • Feminine

• It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.

  

  Henry Major Tomlinson
  • May
  • Truth
  • Road

• Like after a nice walk when you have seen many lovely sights you decide to go home, after a while I decided it was time to go home, let us put the cubes back in order. And it was at that moment that I came face to face with the Big Challenge: What is the way home?

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Home
  • Challenge
  • Decide

• What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • House
  • Government

• I've never been a snob. It movie is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Stories

• Murder before impropriety! ... It never fails to shock me - what a properly brought-up Englishwoman will condone to ensure her blessed propriety.

  

  Carole Nelson Douglas
  • Murder
  • Shock
  • Propriety