"I'm bored with it all. Before slipping..." - Quote by Winston Churchill

“It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.”

“The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.”

“I love to learn but I do not want to be taught”

“An earnest conjuration from the King,As England was his faithful tributary,As love between them like the palm might flourish,As peace should still her wheaten garland wearAnd stand a comma 'tween their amities,And many such-like as's of great charge,That, on the view and knowing of these contents,Without debatement further, more or less,He should the bearers put to sudden death,Not shriving time allow'd.”

“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”

“Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.”

“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”

“In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.”

“Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.”