Famous quotes containing the words hit, run and/or incident:
“Carlyle’s humor is vigorous and titanic, and has more sense in it than the sober philosophy of many another. It is not to be disposed of by laughter and smiles merely; it gets to be too serious for that: only they may laugh who are not hit by it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If a woman does possess masculine virtues, we want to run away from her; and if she does not possess masculine virtues, then she runs away.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
—Henry James (1843–1916)