Appeals Allowed

Famous quotes containing the words appeals and/or allowed:

“If tragedy elicits our compassion, comedy appeals to our self-interest. The former confronts life’s failures with noble fortitude, the latter seeks to circumvent them with shrewd nonchalance. The one leaves us momentarily in a mood of resignation, the other in a condition of euphoria.”
—Harry Levin (b. 1912)

“A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who’s allowed to sit down occasionally.”
—Peter Ustinov (b. 1921)