Strain Due Applied

Famous quotes containing the words strain, due and/or applied:

“It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)

“Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free- floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader’s full attention.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)