Dangerous - Quotes
Love, true love, is always fatal. What I mean is, it does not aim at happiness, at an idyll, at a hand-in-hand eternity of sentimental walks under flowering lime trees, with a gentle light burning on the veranda behind, the house swimming in cool scents. Life can be that, but not love. Love burns with a fierce, more dangerous flame. One day you discover a desire in yourself to encounter this all-consuming passion.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.
Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.
This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.
The physical sense of injustice is a dangerous feeling, once it is awakened. It must have outlet, or it eats away the one in whom it is aroused.