Haberdashers Quotes & Sayings

Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing. — Mark Lawrence

The enemy inside Graham agreed with any accusation. — Thomas Harris

Give me a bowl of wine,
In this I bury all unkindness. — William Shakespeare

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do. — James Howe

The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door. I'm lookin' at my girlfriend, she's passed out on the floor. — Randy Newman

The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas. — Michael Gove

At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn. — Simon Schama

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what
the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general
resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.
Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion. — Charles Dickens

To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization. — Stephen L. Carter

She was the type of woman who caused men to do stupid shit they would later look back on with disbelief. — Scott Hildreth

If adults commit adultery, do infants commit infantry? If olive oil is made from olives, what do they make baby oil from? I a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian consume? A writer is someone who writes, and a stinger is something that stings. But fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, hammers don't ham, humdingers don't humding, ushers don't ush, and haberdashers do not haberdash ... If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth? One goose, two geese-so one moose, two meese? If people ring a bell today and rang a bell yesterday, why don't we say that they flang a ball? If they wrote a letter, perhaps they also bote their tongue. — Steven Pinker

What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime. — Deepak Chopra