John Philpot Curran
Evil prospers when good men do nothing.Collection: Good
His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.Collection: Smile
I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active.
Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.
When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
In this administration, a place can be found for every bad man.
My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.Collection: Fate
But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.Collection: Blow
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.Collection: Men
Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.Collection: Talking
The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.Collection: Art