Lorgnette Quotes

#1. politics was a necessarily dirty game of treachery and deceit.

Dave Robinson

#2. Even in the darkness of the closed box she felt trapped inside, she could see light shining in through tiny holes on the lid.
They were like the stars beckoning her towards a place where all would be simple ... away from the shadows, away from the darkness.

Umair Naeem

#3. Relationships between things shift and change constantly; there is not such thing as objective truth.

Michael Swanwick

#4. Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!

Adela Popescu

#5. I don't wish my career on anyone.

John Entwistle

#6. All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Karl Marx

#7. I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

Denzel Washington

#8. The inevitable lorgnette, the enemy to other people's privacy.

Daphne Du Maurier

#9. The world will never be safe for democracy - it is a dangerous trade

G.K. Chesterton

#10. I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

John Irving

#11. The creed of the Inland Revenue is simple: "If we can bring one little smile to one little face today, then somebody's slipped up somewhere."

David Frost

#12. I get up every day and work, regardless of if I have a job or not.

Christian Kane

#13. O Dionysus, we feel you near,
stirring like molten lava
under the ravaged earth,
flowing from the wounds of your trees
in tears of sap,
screaming with the rage
of your hunted beasts.

Euripides

#14. I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette.

Mary Balogh

#15. But tonight I finally made the connection that change always strolled hand in hand with loss, with upheaval, and that I would always feel it keenly because in the end, I did not live under the same sky as most other people. (p179)

Meera Syal

#16. Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

Joe Biden

#17. The principle applies here, help yourselves and Almighty God will not deny you his assistance.

Adolf Hitler