Fact Crime Book

Famous quotes containing the words fact, crime and/or book:

“The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“There’s no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”
—George Farquhar (1678–1707)

“The English Bible—a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)