Double Quotes

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. (Jean de La Fontaine)
Age, like distance lends a double charm. View quote
Oliver Herford
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! View quote
Winston Churchill
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. View quote
Gore Vidal
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. View quote
Emil Cioran
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. View quote
Frederick Douglass
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. View quote
Muhammad Ali
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. View quote
Kin Hubbard
Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger. View quote
Channing Tatum
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. (Henry David Thoreau)
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. View quote
Mae West
The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. View quote
Oscar Wilde
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow. View quote
William Wordsworth
Up up my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double Up up my friend, and clear your looks Why all this toil and trouble. View quote
William Wordsworth
In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave. View quote
Vitruvius
Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power? View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. (Victor Hugo)
It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them. View quote
Timothy Ferriss
To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is "real” in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
Double, double, toil and trouble Fire burn and cauldron bubble. View quote
William Shakespeare
Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head. View quote
Allison Pearson