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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
View quotes by Christopher Fry

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
View quotes by Arthur Christopher Benson

Drugs are marvellous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?
View quotes by Geraldine Chaplin

'It is by no means enough that an officer be capable...He should be a gentleman of liberal education, refined, manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor... No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.'
View quotes by John Paul Jones

McGonagall planned an escape which went like this. 'One day I'm going to get out of here'. (William McGonagall: The Truth at Last)
View quotes by Spike Milligan

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night
View quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape
View quotes by Dodie Smith

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
View quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
View quotes by Ayn Rand

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
View quotes by Thomas Mann

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
View quotes by John Mortimer

The final test of religious faith is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.
View quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

Through ballet I was fortunate to find a place to escape, a refuge from my feelings of being an outsider. The dance studio was the one place I felt accepted and 'just like everybody else' was in the dance studio. Hoping to improve the rhythm of my speech, my mother had enrolled me in a ballet class when I was five years old. The ballet class boosted my self-esteem.
View quotes by Heather Whitestone

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
View quotes by Tocqueville

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

View quotes by Eric Hoffer

Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
View quotes by William Hazlitt

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
View quotes by Samuel Johnson

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
View quotes by Aristotle

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
View quotes by Lyndon Johnson

It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.
View quotes by Jean Paul Sartre



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