Into Motivation

Quotes by Stephen Butler Leacock "I can see nothing funny in the Cockney humour. The Cockney accent seems to me one of the most debased forms of utterance. I like nearly all the forms of broken-down English - Yorkshire and Somerset accents and so on - bit no outside nation can admire the Cockney. Cockney humour invariably depends upon bad taste, cruelty, or callousness." Quotes by Walter Savage Landor "The better wit is, the more dangerous it is." Quotes by Charles Lamb "Jokes come in ... Read More

Quotes by Hugh MacDiarmid "Whatever Scotland is to me, Be it aye part o'a' men see, O' Earth and o' Eternity". Quotes by Dame Rose Macauley "Owing to the weather, English social life must always have largely occurred either indoors, or, when out of doors, in active motion". Quotes by Alan Jay Lerner "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain". Quotes by Fran Lebowitz "[Of Paris] If you're going there you would do well to remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian ... Read More