I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

Iron deficiency can lead to a wardrobe full of crumpled clothes

Benny Bellamacina

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

Queen Victoria

One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.

Anita Hill

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Kahlil Gibran

Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.

Christopher Hitchens

The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

Oscar Wilde

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

Jane Mayer

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

David Byrne

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw