Esher Quotes

#1. The monarchy, as Lord Esher, adviser to Edward VII and editor of Queen Victoria's early letters and journals, would later say, was exchanging 'authority' for 'influence'.3

A. N. Wilson

#2. It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray ... We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

Winston Churchill

#3. As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.

Troy Brown

#4. The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.

Wendy Mass

#5. Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.

Brie Larson

#6. But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.

Augusten Burroughs

#7. When politicians and civil servants hear the word culture they feel for their blue pencils.

Lionel Esher

#8. How lucky you are, Noah. Everyone wants to enjoy you, even from a distance.

Pierce Smith

#9. The climate is changing, and anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#10. Eric," she said, "maybe someday one of the waitresses will get pregnant, and we
can go to a baby shower!"
"That would be something to see," said Eric

Charlaine Harris

#11. Politicians in Europe want change. The United States and China will follow this trend. One could see this is a threat, but it's also an opportunity. We at BMW want to take advantage of this and, through innovations, place ourselves at the forefront.

Norbert Reithofer

#12. I was dead inside.

Lorraine Bracco

#13. I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day because the telephone started to ring, and it was Sinatra, three for lunch, his usual table; Onassis, two for lunch, usual table; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leland Hayward, Truman Capote, all wanting their usual tables.

Sirio Maccioni

#14. Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.

John Kessel

#15. A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. Quid obscurum, quid divinum. Each historian traces, to some extent, the particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell.

Victor Hugo

#16. If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

Neil Young

#17. We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

Franz Kafka