Longues Chaussettes Quotes & Sayings

I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth
that is, for the aggrandisement of her family, the extending of their political influence
for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage. — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

My favourite word: FRUITION. — Grant McLachlan

Without education and understanding, the barbarians would have outnumbered us and swarmed the city gates a long time ago. — Peter F. Hamilton

life is like a pencil,whenever it breaks you sharpen it again,that's how life is. — Elizabeth Buah

When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, "the neighbourhood in which this contemptible person resides is that officially known as 'the mean quarter favoured by the lower class of those who murder by treachery'," and for this reason he was not always treated with the regard to which his attainments entitled him, or which he would have unquestionably received had he been able to describe himself as of "the partly-drained and uninfected area reserved to Mandarins and their friends. — Ernest Bramah

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America. — Paul Bettany

Each of the pathways to nuclear terrorism, when examined carefully, turns out to have gantlets of improbabilities. — Steven Pinker

The best prescription is knowledge. — C. Everett Koop