Apsley House Quotes

#1. There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

John Updike

#2. I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

Carlos Fuentes

#3. My business is the analytical framework.

Todd Gitlin

#4. Love is the only language that everyone understands without any word or interpretation.

Debasish Mridha

#5. The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

Jane Austen

#6. Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

Gerard Depardieu

#7. The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.

Horace Mann

#8. Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

Charles Simeon

#9. A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

Arnold Gingrich

#10. Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

Jose Rizal

#11. I'm a sucker for a man who giggles - not a high-pitched serial-killer sort of giggle, but a lighthearted laugh.

Jancee Dunn

#12. The usage seems first to have made its appearance on the floor of the Convention in the context of insults. In February the deputy Thomas used the familiar form to rebuke Marat for one of his outbursts: "Shut up, you imbecile!

Timothy Tackett