Female suffrage may be just. But if it is just, it is just because women are women, not because women are sweated workers and white slaves and all sorts of things that they ought never to have been. Let not the Imperialist accept a colony because it is there, nor the Suffragist seize a vote because it is lying about, nor the Socialist buy up an industry merely because it is for sale.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
I find that, classified altogether, there are seventeen reasons advanced in Scotland for taking whiskey. They run as follows: Reason one, because it is raining; Two, because it is not raining; Three, because you are just going out into the weather; Four, because you have just come in from the weather; Five; no, I forget the ones that come after that. But I remember that reason number seventeen is "because it canna do ye any harm." On the whole, reason seventeen is the best.英文原著 · 《My Discovery of England》
"I am proud of the Chancellor because he gambled and the Foreign Minister because he drank and the Prime Minister because he took a commission on a contract," said Fisher, firmly. "I am proud of them because they did these things, and can be denounced for them, and know they can be denounced for them, and are STANDING FIRM FOR ALL THAT. I take off my hat to them because they are defying blackmail, and refusing to smash their country to save themselves. I salute them as if they were going to die on the battlefield."英文原著 · 《The Man Who Knew Too Much》
"I am young and you are old," he said. "And that is all the matter. You hate me, not because you think I am wicked and might do the Signorina harm, but because I am young. You try to keep the Signorina from me because I am young. You do not dare to let her know what youth is, really, really to know, really, really to feel. Because, if once she did know, if once she did feel, if she touched the fire"--he struck his hand down on his breast--"she would be carried away, she would be gone from you forever. You think, 'Now she looks up to me! She reverences me!英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth. Because--"英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
So he had come back because the Mexicans were not congenial; because business was as profitable here as there; because of any reason, and not because he cared to be near her. She remembered the day she sat on the floor, turning the pages of his letter, seeking the reason which was left untold.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
And he did because you did because his parents and your parents because America because England because ancient Rome because primordial ooze.美剧 · 《Billions》
I went to the hospital because Harvey paid the doctor because he didn't trust that I would make it through the night in here, and I didn't tell you because I didn't want to put you in a position - where you'd have to lie for me. - You know what?美剧 · 《Suits》
Because instead of telling Louis that you need to be managing partner because you know he can't handle it, you avoided the conflict because you already had one this morning.美剧 · 《Suits》
And because I'm a genius, and also because it's such short notice--美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Because Dutch Boy made a can that people talk about, because it's remarkable. because Dutch Boy made a can that people talk about, because it's remarkable.演讲 · 《How to get your ideas to spread ~ Seth Godin》