No domínio da vida quotidiana afigurava-se, sem dúvida, necessário, pelo menos ? s vezes, reflectir antes de falar, mas um membro do Partido chamado a emitir um juízo político ou ético devia ser capaz de disparar as opiniões correctas tão automaticamente como uma metralhadora dispara balas.

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

Phaedrus

There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.

W.E. (William Edwin) Sangster, T

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

Henrik Ibsen

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Henri Estienne

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

Constantin Brancusi

Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?

Elizabeth Jennings

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

Agatha Christie

I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great treasure house of stories. I have been researching it since my infancy reading about it, talking to men and women who have spent their lives in this land, living it as I have and loving it as I do. I write almost entirely from my own experience.

Wilbur Smith

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

Charles Kennedy

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

Jamie Luner

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

George Eliot, In a letter to Geo