The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the ordinary detective. The ordinary detective goes to pot-houses to arrest thieves; we go to artistic tea-parties to detect pessimists. The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that a crime will be committed. We have to trace the origin of those dreadful thoughts that drive men on at last to intellectual fanaticism and intellectual crime. We were only just in time to prevent the assassination at Hartlepool, and that was entirely due to the fact that our Mr. Wilks (a smart young fellow) thoroughly understood a triolet.
G.K. ChestertonTag: philosophy classic
It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTag: classic
Söylemek istediğim şu ki, medeniyet ihracı fikrine alışamıyorum ben. Çok değil, daha on sekizinci yüzyılla rayına giren endüstriyel dönemin başlangıcına kadar, şehirlerinin sokaklarından açık lağımlar akan ve tuvalet alışkanlığı bulunmayan bu insanlardan şimdi medeniyet dilemek zorunda kalmak bana zür geliyor.
Okay TiryakioğluTag: history classic abdülhamid okay-tiryakioğlu
You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat.Try fighting with your head for a change . . .it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.
Harper LeeTag: classic american-literature
The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.
John SteinbeckTag: classic observational insperational
It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...
S.E. HintonTag: life classic dark vampire emotional asylum mental-hospital
It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn’t go inside because it’s a labyrinth and you may never come out again.
Tove JanssonTag: classic swedish children-s finnish moomin tove-jansson comet-in-moominland
He looked just perfect to play Dorian Gray in a film version of Oscar Wilde's novel. Young, graceful, and indecently fresh and handsome, he could easily have worn a badge that said READY FOR DEBAUCHERY!
Sergei LukyanenkoTag: classic funny handsome debauchery
The warm days of Firestreak are usually good for travellers in the world of Amarillia.
Ian LivingstoneTag: classic fantasy carl-sargent ian-livingstone zagor
He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at the opposite end of the ground. There was apparently nothing striking either in her dress or her attitude. But for Levin she was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles. Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her.
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