Vestina Govornistva Quotes & Sayings

The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger. — Isak Dinesen

But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it? — Elizabeth Bowen

I can tell you. In New York you are your own person. You may reach out and embrace all of Manhattan in sweet aloneness, or you can go to hell if you want to. — Harper Lee

I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else — Billie Joe Armstrong

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor. — Mona Charen

He had few illusions, for here are some of the things that life had taught him: Men hate those whom they have injured; men love those whom they have benefited; men naturally avoid their benefactors; men are universally actuated by self-interest; gratitude is a lovely sense of expected benefits; promises are never forgotten by those to whom they are made, usually by those who make them. — W. Somerset Maugham