Barchester Towers Quotes

#1. Resistance is NOT futile.

Jay Inslee

#2. I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

Toussaint Louverture

#3. Cromwell saw that the destruction of these men would not only ruin Ormonde's military power, but spread a helpful terror throughout the island. He therefore resolved upon a deed of "frightfulness" deeply embarrassing to his nineteenth-century admirers and apologists. Having

Winston S. Churchill

#4. I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene McCarthy supporter, so I guess he was the first senator I really knew about and cared about.

George Packer

#5. It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.

Henry John Stephen Smith

#6. It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.

John J. McCloy

#7. And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.

Erasmus Darwin

#8. Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.

Paulo Coelho

#9. We ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#10. My beloved beliebers I'm officially retiring.

Justin Bieber

#11. Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' was a perfect song. It was so beautiful and so heartfelt. Her vocals were so amazing. And, for me, that was a song I went to when I was feeling sad and wanted to feel even sadder.

Lea Thompson

#12. Fulfilling our purpose is part of who we are

Jim Tressel

#13. You cannot fall in love with me." "Cannot ... what?

Pam Godwin

#14. Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That's how you'll get there.

Mary E. Pearson

#15. At the Quebec prison, he had read Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, then had autographed the book and given it to a guard for a souvenir.

Erik Larson

#16. Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!

John Fante

#17. Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Anthony Trollope