Incomplete quotes

[maradnu]

Newspapers and publishers

Is it not a horrible thing that scoundrel-booksellers should grow rich here [in America] from publishing books, the authors of which do not reap one farthing from their issue, by scores of thousands? And that every vile, blackguard, and detestable newspaper,--so filthy and so bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house, for a water-closet doormat--should be able to publish those same writings, side by side, cheek by jowl, with the coarsest and obscene companions. . . .? I vow before High Heaven that my blood so boils at these enormities, that when I speak about them, I seem to grow twenty feet high, and to swell out in proportion. "Robbers that ye are"--I think to myself, when I get upon my legs--"Here goes!"

[smoochie222]

written by

Juliet John????

[maradnu]

Juliet John

Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist: A Sourcebook
by Juliet John
Softcover, Routledge, ISBN 0415255309 (0-415-25530-9)

Cult Criminals: The Newgate Novels, 1830-1847
by Juliet John, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, William Harrison Ainsworth
Hardcover, Routledge, ISBN 0415143837 (0-415-14383-7)

Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture
by Juliet John
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, ISBN 0199261377 (0-19-926137-7)

Rereading Victorian Fiction
by Alice Jenkins, Juliet John
Softcover, Macmillan Publishers Limited, ISBN 0333973852 (0-333-97385-2)

Rethinking Victorian Culture
by Juliet John, Alice Jenkins
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0312226799 (0-312-22679-9)

[bansaisequoia]

I'm a bad boy

Thanks for all the info, maradnu. You make me feel like a slacker for not digging a little further on the net.

[maradnu]

Bad boy?

Not necessarily.

I enjoy googling all manner of things, for all manner of reasons, or no reason at all. (As ferrym found out the one time.)

At one point, the Tampa paper had a quiz of sorts. They'd have a line from a song, book, or movie. I was one of a hand full of people who went over a year without missing any - and some were tough.

[cayot]

And another...

"A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. "
— Josh Billings

Should read:

"Solitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. "
— Josh Billings

[maradnu]

Yet another

The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce

should be:

Quoting: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce

[opallady]

How about an incomplete attribution? "On the edge of destiny you must test your strength." was attributed to Billy. Billy who? Billy Bishop, if you do a simple web search.

[bansaisequoia]

Yet another

"The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind."
— A. E. Houseman


D'oh!

[bansaisequoia]

Yet another

"Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater. "
— Maya Angelou



D'oh!

[maradnu]

Not incomplete ,but

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What is the purpose of posting quotes that dump on anyone's religion? I really don't care whether it's Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, or whatever.

[smoochie222]

What if

it's the truth?

Then again, you can opt for showing no offensive quotes, however what's offensive to you doesn't seem to be offensive to me.

Rant on

[bansaisequoia]

I hate to admit...

What is the purpose of posting quotes that dump on anyone's religion? I really don't care whether it's Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, or whatever.

While I would never "dump" on any of the religions you've mentioned, I wouldn't find it too offensive if there was a quote denouncing Satanism. Admittedly, this is perhaps not a major religion, but how about the Church of Scientology? They even have an IRS exemption these days. I have to admit I wouldn't find a quote denouncing Scientology offensive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu

[maradnu]

Incomplete quote

"A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. "

Ezra Pound was referring to Jesus Christ.

Not only do we miss the reference, it is also a dig at religion.

[bansaisequoia]

Hmmm....

Consider, if you will, the source. A purported anti-Semite who used to consort with Mussolini and spent time in Italy during World War II as a pro-Axis propagandist on the radio. After being brought up on treason charges in the US, he pleaded insanity and spent the next 12 years in an asylum.



Mark it 10-stars offensive if you will. I've certainly done this to a number of quotes. Nonetheless, in my preferences, I don't ask admin to filter out offensive quotes.