Top 13 Brethour Island Quotes

#1. Now if the wearing of fine and precious robes were not a fault, word of God would never have so carefully expressed this. For no one seeks costly garments except for vainglory, that he may seem more honorable than others; for no one wishes to be clothed with such, where he cannot be seen by others.

Pope Gregory I

#2. I like being boring to a certain extent. I don't have to be flashy. I get to put all of that into a show, and when it's over, I don't have to be that.

Stephen Colbert

#3. No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

Benjamin Franklin

#4. Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

Norah Jones

#5. God forgive you, but I never can.

Elizabeth I

#6. Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.

Peter Schiff

#7. I think we spent our best years fighting on the wrong side.

Larry McMurtry

#8. The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth ... But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

#9. I spend more time being confused than not, I answered.

Haruki Murakami

#10. If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.

Alec Ross

#11. When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.

Alastair Reynolds

#12. You can be racist against people that eat little red apples.

Doug Ford Jr.

#13. You marry at the level of your own psychological health.

Sonia Friedman

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