Ilberd Quotes & Sayings

You have been in every line I have ever read. — Charles Dickens

But our strategy for peace with freedom must also be based on strength - economic strength and military strength. — Ronald Reagan

One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so. — Bobby Scott

The town, although it had "suffered greatly," was not in as bad shape as he had expected, he wrote to John Hancock, "and I have a particular pleasure in being able to inform you, sir, that your house has received no damage worth mentioning." Other fine houses had been much abused by the British, windows broken, furnishings smashed or stolen, books destroyed. But at Hancock's Beacon Hill mansion all was in order, as General Sullivan also attested, and there was a certain irony in this, since the house had been occupied and maintained by the belligerent General James Grant, who had wanted to lay waste to every town on the New England coast. "Though I believe," wrote Sullivan, "the brave general had made free with some of the articles in the [wine] cellar. — David McCullough

The weather for me is nothing special. The weather couldn't kill me. — Li Na

Nature and Passion are powerful, but they are also full of grief. True happiness would have the calm and order of bourgeois routine without its utilitarian ignobility and boredom. — W. H. Auden

If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops. — Quentin Crisp

The body - the cage - is everything of the most respectable - but through the bars, the wild animal looks out. — Agatha Christie