Famous quotes containing the words twentieth century, conservative, friends, twentieth and/or century:
“A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious “retreat” of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.”
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)
“... the nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Not.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.”
—18th century English proverb.