Anais Nin Quotes

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Nothing he [a Foreign Secretary] can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Truth is often attended with danger

I see dynamite in it.

He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.

Christian, thou knowest thou carriest Gunpowder about thee, desire those that carry Fire to keep at a Distance from thee; 'tis a dangerous Crisis when a proud Heart meets with flattering Lips.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Eighteen months ago, when first I stood before you I called attention, as earnestly and seriously as I knew how, to what looked to me to be the dangers that were ahead, and I urged you at that time to practice the old virtues of thrift, of honesty, of truthfulness, of industry, and so on through the list of those I named. All that I said then I say again.

If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.

Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.

He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned

Hatsuharu Sohma: [after tripping Kyo] If I hadn't had tripped you, you wouldn't have stopped now would you. [addressing the audience] Hatsuharu Sohma: By the way what I just did was very dangerous. And if it had been anyone but Kyo they probably would have been hurt pretty badly, so don't try it at home. Kyo Sohma: Don't try it here and who are you even talking to?

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

Beware the ides of March.

Be careful what you shoot at . . . most things in here don't react too well to bullets.

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

It's a bomb. Just like you.

Mind the dead man, my dear.

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.