Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Samuel Butler
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Lord Byron
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed... →
Herbert Hoover
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
E. W. Howe
In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
William Dean Howells
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
Elbert Hubbard
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
David Hume
After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to... →
Ellsworth Huntington
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston