Chasuble Quotes

#1. Lady Bracknell: Is this Miss Prism a female of repellent aspect, remotely connected with education?
Chasuble: (Somewhat indignantly) She is the most cultivated of ladies, and the very picture of respectability.
Lady Bracknell: It is obviously the same person.

Oscar Wilde

#2. What matters most has an ultimate metallic quality of death. The chasuble and the wagon wheel, the razor and the prickly beards of shepherds, the bare moon, a fly, humid cupboards, rubble piles, the images of saints covered in lace, quicklime, and the wounding edges of the rooflines and watchtowers.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#3. Cecily: Oh, yes. Dr. Chasuble is a most learned man. He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.

Oscar Wilde

#4. Well, what the hell's the presidency for?

Ari Berman

#5. There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#6. Blind people are just like seeing people in the dark. The loss of sight does not impair the qualities of mind and heart.

Helen Keller

#7. A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

Maurice Sendak

#8. Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely

Alan AtKisson

#9. Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. That was the one advantage of growing old - it let you be nasty with impunity.

Jacob M. Appel

#11. Memories which fastened him to places his flesh had never known presented him with answers to questions he had not asked.

Frank Herbert

#12. How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

Rand Paul

#13. The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

John Sayles

#14. I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

Dave Attell

#15. I'd love to look like my mum when I am her age. She taught ballet for years, and my attitude to exercise and fitness has definitely been influenced by her. She's 84 now, and I've watched how well she has aged, and a lot of that is to do with her fantastic posture.

Sarah Parish

#16. What Great Beast will have their solitude pierced by your grasping little voices?

Garth Nix

#17. He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.

John Lanchester

#18. What are people actually able to do and to be? What real opportunities are available to them?

Martha C. Nussbaum