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I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion. — Rex Stout

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
(Nero Wolfe) — Rex Stout

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,
Sharp Roman road to Paradise,
Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll
With all my flesh, and keep my soul. — Stevie Smith

There were many, many other 'Django' films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one 'Django.' — Franco Nero

He was just as good as Nero was bad. — Virgil Mores Hillyer

Nero: "Am I forbidden to do what all may do?"
Seneca: "From high rank high example is expected. — Seneca.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's. — William Gurnall

One, anxiety is normal, and two, anxiety is a response. — Nero Mayo

Darkdoom? Darkdoom did this?" Nero was visibly surprised. He placed a hand on his forehead, rubbing his temples. "Oh, why is it always the bald ones? — Mark Walden

It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die. — Franco Nero

They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta's soul was far darker than even Nero's. — Katlyn Charlesworth

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. — Walter Bagehot

The Rome he has been trained to serve, the Rome of Augustus and Germanicus, was gone. In its place stood Neronopolis, ruled by a megalomaniac brat. — James Romm

To assert dignity is to lose it. — Rex Stout

Courtesy is one's own affair, but decency is a debt to life — Rex Stout

I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know.
(Nero Wolfe) — Rex Stout

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone. — Franco Nero

Baudelaires had visited the office of Vice Principal Nero and learned about all of the academy's strict and unfair rules. When they worked — Lemony Snicket

If Nero had played a better fiddle, Rome might never have burned. — Marty Rubin

Nero would be long since forgotten without his outbursts of bloody clowning. ~ Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay — Emil Cioran

If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe. — Franco Nero

Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings. — Apollonius Of Tyana

They never let you live it down. One little mistake!- Nero — Robert Asprin

No matter how many men you kill, you can't kill your successor. — Seneca.

Tiberius Nero's face lit up with a smile. "What did you do, offer to make him consul?" I asked Tavius later. He shook his head. — Phyllis T. Smith

[Christians] are people such as the world has not seen hitherto, and their teaching is of a kind that the world has not heard up to this time ... — Henryk Stanczyk

We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned. — Michael Scheuer

It strikes me, sir, that you are nearing the point where even a grateful American might tell you to go to the devil.-Nero Wolfe to an FBI Agent — Rex Stout

Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered. — Franco Nero

Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me. — Franco Nero

More people saying what they believe would be a great improvement. Because I often do I am unfit for common intercourse.-Nero Wolfe in Blood Will Tell — Rex Stout

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

My father's corporation, the Nero Organization, supplied assassins for hire. Killing was our business, and business had been good for years. — Lisa Kessler

Tiberius Nero Blackthorn. I think his parents may have gone a little overboard. It's like naming someone Magnificent Bastard. — Cassandra Clare

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. — John Foxe

He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored. — H.L. Mencken

And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Thanks for outing me. (Alix)
Anytime, cupcake. Now I'm taking my psychic ass to bed. That door spanked me. (Nero) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

You're the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this. — Franco Nero

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Everyone has a first love, and mine was the western. When I was a child and dreamed of the movies, it was always as a cowboy on a white horse. — Franco Nero

I have undertaken to to find an explanation for something that can't possibly be explained-Nero Wolfe — Rex Stout

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person, - Nero Wolfe — Rex Stout

I could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career. — Franco Nero

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor. — Franco Nero

They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert. — Victor Borge

Only the man that knows to little, knows too much. Nero Wolfe — Rex Stout

There live Christ and Nero in our hearts. — Antoni Lange

People suck. (Nero) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius. — Antoine Rivarol

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits. — Rex Stout

Men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero today. — J. Vernon McGee

Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. — Suetonius

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly. — Ned Rorem

I'm not dead yet. It's all good. (Omari)
Good. That whole spontaneous combustion thing can be a real buzzkill. Ruins your clothes, too. (Nero) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Pessimists have only pleasant surprises. — Nero Wolfe

Show yourself to the darkness, they said, and then you will see your face."

--Nero Slyvenski

ALL LIGHT WILL FALL — Almney King

As Christ had his saints in Nero's court, so the devil his servants in the outward court of his visible church. Thou — William Gurnall

To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices. — Rex Stout