Phil Williams > Phil's Quotes

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.”
― Richard Francis Burton, The Book of a Thousand Nights and One Night: 17 Volumes, Complete

“If you can’t laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. I’d rather hear a girl laugh well than try to turn me on with long, silent, soulful, secret looks. If you can laugh with a woman, everything else falls into place.”
― Richard Burton

“It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”
― George Eliot

“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
― George Eliot

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

“There is no great writing, only great rewriting.”
― Justice Louis Brandeis