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Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.
(Nero Wolfe) — Rex Stout
(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
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.
Seneca: "From high rank high example is expected. — Seneca.
Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.
— William Gurnall
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
— Victor Borge
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
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
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
--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