Ponents Quotes & Sayings

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. — Edward Gibbon

Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy. — Jay Parini

An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there. — Dawn Powell

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind. — John Buchan

It was just she was so full of bullshit and someone needed to call her on it and ... and ... she reacted so beautifully. — Sarra Manning

I'll accept commissions from anyone who isn't frightened by my proposals. — Robert Denning

thing, "Typhoon and the Tor Bay" it was called, — The Paris Review

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. — Hermann Ebbinghaus

Politicians are a lot like five-year-olds. You know: one day they're best friends and five minutes later they're rolling around in the sandpit biting chunks out of each other. — Robert Muchamore

Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power' Romeo and Juliet, II, iii — Val McDermid