Antiques Roadshow Memorable Quotes & Sayings

When words failed I realized there was something unspeakably beautiful in not being able to put words to your happiness. — R. YS Perez

In the evening [the Iraqi interim governor of Maysan province] asked me for fifty dollars to repair his windows, which had been destroyed in a recent demonstration. Although he was the governor, his salary was only four hundred and fifty dollars a month, and Baghdad had still not agreed to give the governors an independent budget ... For the sake of a tiny sum of money - a couple thousand dollars a month from the hundred billion we had spent on the invasion - we were alienating our key partner and successor.
p. 264 — Rory Stewart

Who is it that can tell me who I am? — William Shakespeare

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly. — James Russell Lowell

Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. — Dorothy Parker