Fatal Quotes
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
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However it happened, she at any rate suffered herself to be allured to the fatal spot, and so gave opportunity to the Devil. For we should keep as far as possible from that which is prohibited, nor ever tempt God by unnecessarily approaching it, either through curiosity or any other impelling cause. Had Eve avoided the vicinity of the tree, she could never have cast upon it that look which ruined herself and the world.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.
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Ideas are fatal to caste.
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The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.
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The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.
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Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.
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It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.
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Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
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True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.
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We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
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Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.
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One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.
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There will be fatal crashes, that's for sure.
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Eavesdropping's a sin, but ignorance is fatal. Take your pick.
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Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.
