Quotes Tagged With :cadence

Cavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile.'I like that idea. It's reassuring. If....

I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their....

Look, de Mazel, you've known him for years - hasn't he been known to sleep for forty hours in two days?'....

Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. They rule....

The inartistic methods that we use to blunt anxiety and unartful expedients that we resort to in order....

Hidden away behind the closed doors of aristocratic and bourgeois privilege, concealed under those ultra-respectable....

The decadent artist markets other people's pain

Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium,....

It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure,....

Here, in Lorrain's poisoned little jewel of a tale (“The Man Who Made Wax Heads”) the consummate....