Miscellaneous Quotes

• I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

• Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

• Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

• Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

• To err is human - but it feels divine.

• Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

• Parting is such sweet sorrow.

• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

• If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

• A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!

• Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

• Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

• One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

• One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

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