Ashenden Quotes

#1. Ashenden was in the habit of asserting that he was never bored. It was one of his notions that only such persons were as had no resources in themselves and it was but the stupid that depended on the outside world for their amusement.
[Giulia Lazzari]

W. Somerset Maugham

#2. Mr Harrington was a bore. He exasperated Ashenden, and enraged him; he got on his nerves, and drove him to frenzy. But Ashenden did not dislike him. His self-satisfaction was enormous but so ingenuous that you could not resent it; his conceit was so childlike that you could only smile at it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. was with Ashenden that Morse's attention was immediately

Colin Dexter

#4. A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

Lucan

#5. Most magic wasn't even magic. It just was.

A. Lee Martinez

#6. Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, That slid into my soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#7. It is very hard for a man, however modest, to grasp the possibility that a woman who has once loved him may love him no longer ...

W. Somerset Maugham

#8. One of the worst symptoms of HIV is secrecy...if you get HIV? You get secretive. Insular. Paranoid. Your life becomes a giant pretense so no one finds out you have this disease. You don't know what people will do for you because you are too afraid to tell them.

Regan Hofmann

#9. The choice is: the Universe ... or nothing.

H.G.Wells

#10. I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.

Jay-Z