Perhaps Quotes

Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.

The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.

Perhaps it’s simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.

Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.

The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.