Lansdowne Quotes & Sayings

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

We live in an age when the mice are hunting the cats ... nobody knows who are the mice and who the cats. — Henning Mankell

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach. — Ken Harrelson

Beauty should be kind, as well as charm. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Christ is the Word of God, the answer of God. All the words of the prophets, philosophers, and poets are echoes of this Word. In — Peter Kreeft

Inspiration is the tool God uses to communicate with humans. If God didn't exist, there would be no creativity or inventions in the world. — Robin Sacredfire

There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises. — James Madison

One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members. — Tony Evans

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame,
And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Knowing your coach has confidence in you is big for a young player. — Steven Stamkos

Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered? — Paul Gauguin

Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot survive in a world where the rules don't keep the marketplace honest. — Elizabeth Warren

The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who are invested with public authority. — Francis Atterbury

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy. — Bell Hooks

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools;
Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools:
Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell;
Not left us women, or not threatened hell. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

There is no heaven like mutual love. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power. — Chaim Weizmann

Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,
Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

[The Edwardian era] was a time of booming trade, of great prosperity and wealth in which the pageant of London Society took place year after year in a setting of traditional dignity and beauty. The great houses - Devonshire, Dorchester, Grosvenor, Stafford and Lansdowne House - had not yet been converted into museums, hotels and flats, and there we danced through the long summer nights till dawn. The great country-houses still flourished in their glory, and on their lawns in the green shade of trees the art of human intercourse was exquisitely practised by men and women not yet enslaved by household cares and chores who still had time to read, to talk, to listen and to think. — Violet Bonham Carter

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns. — Quentin Tarantino

Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

The radiant sun sends from above ten thousand blessings down, nor is he set so high for show alone. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand? — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne