Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Henry Kissinger

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Princess of Wales Diana

Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

Voltaire

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

Tarja Halonen

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Sidney Hook

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

C.S. Lewis

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

Claude Chabrol

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Simone Weil

I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.

Thiruvalluvar

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Alice Meynell

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

Theodore Parker

I should do something about the cigarettes I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

Charles Kennedy