Gerline Brutus Quotes & Sayings

The most highly promoted of all was William Laud, who directed Church affairs as Bishop of London from 1628, although he had to wait for Canterbury until Archbishop Abbot had the good taste to die, in 1633. Laud was prominent in a royal regime which after 1629 ceased to trouble itself with meeting Parliament and instead tried to sort out England's problems with royal proclamations, Privy Council orders and the decisions of law courts. Its enemies sarcastically named the period 'Thorough', and looked back on it as the 'Eleven Years' Tyranny — Diarmaid MacCulloch

If it was killing-and it was- then I thought it not murder, but a justifiable homicide, undertaken in desperate self defense. — Diana Gabaldon

If you called the faery handbag by its right name, it would be something like 'orzipankianikcz,' which means the 'bag of skin where the world lives,' only Zofia never spelled that word the same way twice. She said you had to spell it a little differently each time. You never wanted to spell it exactly the right way, because that would be dangerous. — Kelly Link

He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy. — Graham Greene

But I think if you treat people well, they embrace you. The other stuff, it just doesn't matter. — Kenneth Faried

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. — Julius Charles Hare

While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance. — Michael K. Simpson

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are. — James Fitzjames Stephen