Quidquid Id Quotes

#1. Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

Virgil

#2. I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years.

Carole Lombard

#3. I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I'm here to tell you I'm quite the opposite in real life. In fact I'm a f**king fantastic lover.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#4. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Depend only upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things.

Christian D. Larson

#6. As he talked, I thought, "Maybe I'm wrong about the guy." Put him with someone like Anna Gunderson, a nice woman who has suffered a great tragedy, and his empathetic side came out.
And then I realized he was faking it.

Kelley Armstrong

#7. Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

Duke Ellington

#8. There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

D. A. Carson