Cuthbert Calculus Quotes & Sayings

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence. — Alain De Botton

Geoffrey: Why, you chivalric fool - as if the way one fell down mattered.
Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters. — James Goldman

There should be a place for everything, and everything in its place. — Isabella Beeton

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost. — Terry Pratchett

I would go on summer vacations visiting family all over the world. — Joakim Noah

Let lovers be crazy, disgraceful and wild Those who fret about such things Aren't in love. — Rumi

Let's save some time here. I grow weary of your clumsy bluffs. In the case of an abduction, the LEP will send a crack Retrieval team to get back what has been lost.. You have done so. Excuse me while I titter. Crack team? Honestly. A Cub-Scout patrol armed with water pistols could have defeated them. — Eoin Colfer

To fear or not to fear, that is the question. — Jen Sincero

Art and science are made when people are terrified that they are going to die. (about "Arcadia" by Iain Pears) — Jen Campbell

In the same way, I saw our General once approach the table in a stolid, important manner. A lacquey darted to offer him a chair, but the General did not even notice him. Slowly he took out his money bags, and slowly extracted 300 francs in gold, which he staked on the black, and won. Yet he did not take up his winnings - he left them there on the table. Again the black turned up, and again he did not gather in what he had won; and when, in the third round, the RED turned up he lost, at a stroke, 1200 francs. Yet even then he rose with a smile, and thus preserved his reputation; yet I knew that his money bags must be chafing his heart, as well as that, had the stake been twice or thrice as much again, he would still have restrained himself from venting his disappointment. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky