Chapuys The Tudors Quotes & Sayings

I didn't shop. I committed retaliatory consumerism. — Kresley Cole

The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach; but the desire of the conveniencies and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary. — Adam Smith

One cannot know everything. — Horace

I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now. — Alan Lightman

Before taking his leave of a premises, the dustman would request either beer or a tip for his trouble, quaintly known in the trade as 'sparrows'. — Lee Jackson

People are perfect when all that's left of them is memory. — Krystal Sutherland

Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a Russian white witch, as she murmured incantations, was certainly a new experience to cure my backache. It was surprisingly soothing. — Jonathan Dimbleby

The jokes that take my last name and equate them to a sex act ... is a really cruel thing to do. — Monica Lewinsky

I notice I am taking risks with my own security and losing my sensitivity to danger. I don't know it at the time, but the effects of war are reaching into me in unexpected ways, and I am being changed by them. I am surrounded by destruction and the randomness of death, which I cannot fathom. I have felt the closeness of death as tangibly as the whisper of a murderous seducer, and felt the richness, twinged by guilt, of having escaped its grasp. I have seen too often the numb lost look of men consumed by undiluted grief, and heard the howl of children as their mothers are pulled from the rubble of a rocket-blasted home, and I am coming to understand the long dark pain of those who silently endure what first seems unendurable. — Jason Elliot

We should have smashed through the door long ago," grunted Thor. Everyone had always thought of Thor as Lennie from Of Mice and Men: too big and too slow. The chief difference being that while Lenny accidentally hugged little animals to death, Thor had a penchant for beating the shit out of them with his war hammer, Mjolnir. — Dylan Callens

The two sides of the debate don't even mention that viewpoint, so far outside the bounds of respectable thought it lies. — Anonymous

Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other

Is fed with the necessity of seeing each other

It is concluded with the impossibility of separation. — Alisa Valdes

People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority. — Mason Cooley