Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

- James Russell Lowell

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

- James Russell Lowell

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

- James Russell Lowell

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

- James Russell Lowell

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

- James Russell Lowell

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

- James Russell Lowell

I hate to spread rumours, but what else can one do with them?

- Amanda Lear

I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate them more than that.

- Tim Hardaway

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

We've practiced loving long enough, let's come at last to hate.

- Georg Herwegh

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.

- Alfred Leslie Rowse

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

- Mercedes McCambridge