Porteous Quotes

#1. Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity?

Oscar Wilde

#2. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
"That's not my religion," Murray said. "My religion just says duck.

David F. Porteous

#3. he constantly came up with more and more ways to publicly execute his detractors in the most gruesome of ways. There was a purpose to such barbarity; Granzool wanted to ensure that his people feared him more than they could ever fear the western monsters.

Shane Porteous

#4. You may like me, you may hate me. But I guarantee you'll remember me.

Shane Porteous

#5. Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#6. After using a paint chart from a local DIY superstore to identify the skin tone of his penis as midnight chocolate, Miriam stayed down on one knee and offered him the citizenship he had always wanted and the middle-aged white woman he would grudgingly accept.

David F. Porteous

#7. Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#8. The mare on which the traitor had been seated at the time of his death was, obviously, no longer considered the best horse in Parthia. It was amazing that she had not been served as stew at one of the banquets.

M.C. Scott

#9. I am not arrogant to claim that I can achieve the impossible, but I am not ignorant enough not to try to

Shane Porteous

#10. Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

Robin Williams

#11. I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

Daniel Radcliffe

#12. Here's my top secret: When I have a crush, the world is way pretty, like all the colors are brighter. - Mason,

Erika V. Shearin Karres

#13. The emptiness and folly of retaliation are apparent from every example which can be brought forward. Not only Jesus Christ, but the most eminent professors of every sect of philosophy, have reasoned against this futile superstition.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#14. Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.

George Herbert

#15. I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

Henri Matisse

#16. The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.

James Thomas Fields

#17. I think I think, therefore I think I probably am.

David F. Porteous

#18. The Church is going to have to recognise that secularisation is not the cause of their decline, it is the result of it.

Keith Porteous Wood

#19. He had seen better days - though these had only served to embitter him against his current circumstances.

David F. Porteous

#20. PORTEOUS: Do you mean to say you were going to steal my car.
TEDDIE: Not exactly. I was only going to bolshevise it, so to speak.

W. Somerset Maugham

#21. If I never learned from my mistakes, I would never learn at all

Shane Porteous

#22. If love and hate aren't true opposites, perhaps neither are pleasure and pain - if you go far enough in one extreme, it resembles the other.

Daria Snadowsky

#23. I can't get it wrong.

Esther Hicks