Aug 28, 2010
Quotes by William Butler Yeats
"A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote. So stay at him and drink your beer, And let the neighbours vote, Said the man in the golden breastplate, Under the old stone cross".
Quotes by William Wordsworth
"The gold old rule, Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can".
Quotes by Tom Wolfe
"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, ... Read More
May 26, 2010
Quotes by Patrick White
"Virtue is...frequently in the nature of an iceberg, the other parts of it submerged".
Quotes by Herbert George Wells
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo".
Quotes by Anne Tyler
"Oh, what is it that makes some people more virtuous than others? Is it something they know from birth? Don't they ever feel that zingy, thrilling urge to smash the world to bits? Isn't it possible, maybe, that good people are just luckier people?"
Quotes by Anthony Trollope
"As for conceit, what man will do ... Read More
May 8, 2010
Quotes by Herbert George Wells
"I don't 'old with Wealth. What is Wealth? Labour robbed out of the poor".
Quotes by George Washington
"It is not a custom with me to keep money to look at".
Quotes by Artemus Ward
"Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with".
Quotes by Virgil or Vergil
"Auri sacra fames. (Accursed hunger for gold)".
Quotes by Mark Twain
"Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's , I ... Read More
Apr 30, 2010
Quotes by Victoria Wood
"Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television. In Russia, show the least athletic aptitude and they've got you dangling off the parallel bars with a leotard full of hormones".
Quotes by Kenneth Wolstenholme
"They think it's all over - it is now".
Quotes by Tennessee Williams
"Poker shouldn't be played in a house with women".
Quotes by Herbert George Wells
"The uglier a man's legs are the better he plays golf".
Quotes by Evelyn Waugh
"Boys do get into such indelicate ... Read More
Oct 28, 2009
Quotes by Edward Young
"Dull is the jester when the joke's unkind"
Quotes by Sir Pelham Greville Wodehous
"She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel"
Quotes by Adeline Virginia Woolf
"Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."
Quotes by Goerge Wither
"Though I am young, I scorn to flit on the wings of borrowed wit."
Quotes by Ella wheeler wilcox
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone,
For the sad old earth must ... Read More