Famous quotes containing the words civil, police and/or force:
“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.”
—Greil Marcus (b. 1945)
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