— You've always run away from a fight. — Have not. — You have so. — Have not. — You have so, and you know it. — Have not. Slander and calumny. I have only ever embraced that oldest and noblest of pirate traditions. I submit that here now that is what we all must do. We must fight to run away. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Captain Jack Sparrow Hector Barbossa Sarcastic Quotes
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do;nd it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Jane Eyre women rights vocation equality
— If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build our future. — Where did you read that? — I made it up. I thought it was rather good. — It's too good. One thing we don't want is a poet in the family. — Would it be so bad? — The only poet peer I am familiar with is Lord Byron. And I presume you all know how that ended. Downton Abbey Season 4 Episode 5 Robert Crawley Dowager Countess of Grantham Isobel Crawley Ironic Quotes
— My cage seems bigger than yours, but it's still a cage. If you want sympathy, you won't get it. I don't want your sympathy. — Do you know what my daughter's nurse told her this morning? That in a girl's voice lies temptation. A known fact. Eloquence in a woman means promiscuity. Promiscuity of the mind leads to promiscuity of the body. She doesn't believe her yet, but she will. She'll grow up just like her mother. She'll marry, bear children and honor her family... spend her youth in needlepoint and rue the day she was born a girl. And when she dies... she'll wonder why she obeyed all the rules of God and country... because no biblical hell could ever be worse... than this state of perpetual inconsequence. Dangerous Beauty Veronica Franco Beatrice Venier prejudices young girls existence Sad Quotes
— When you have a new baby, one of the other children has to die. — Really? — It's a tradition. Addams Family Values Wednesday Addams Pugsley Addams Funny Quotes
Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come. The Big Chill Michael Gold paradox funeral
There are always going to be counterrevolutionaries threatened by any change in the status quo. Sliders Season 1 Episode 7 Quinn Mallory conformism revolution coup
But this is how I know who I am. And here it is too easy to forget. Learning to Drive Darwan Singh Tur uniqueness individuality identification
— People like us should lead the fight to keep tradition going. — If you mean we can never change, I can't agree to that. Downton Abbey Season 3 Episode 2 changes
— Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? — No. But I'm thinking about growing a big, black moustache. I'm a traditionalist. Firefly Season 1 Episode 10 shepherd Derrial Book doctor Simon Tam conservatism criminality, criminals dialogue
You are my guest. That is not how we are. We do everything for our guests before we think of ourselves. That is the Sikh way. Learning to Drive Darwan Singh Tur hospitality self-sacrifice
You follow in the tradition that you're handed. Good Doctor Season 2 Episode 16 Claire Browne family heritage reiteration
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. Donald Knuth programming and programmers goal computers human, people Meaningful Quotes
Do not believe the clear sky, the grin of a dog and the smile of an Englishman. Irish proverbs and sayings lie Englishmen Wise Quotes