Shaftesbury Quotes

#1. The elegant Lord Shaftesbury somewhere objects to telling too much truth: by which it may be fairly inferred, that, in some cases, to lie is not only excusable but commendable. And

Henry Fielding

#2. I am not Amish enough to emigrate when my way of life is threatened.

G.R. Reader

#3. Yeah, fucknuts, its you. You're me. To get into this place, You're gonna have to kill me. Which is not gonna happen 'cause I'm not so cool with dying. What is gonna happen is that i'm gonna kick your ass and kill you dead.

P.C. Cast

#4. Yesterday, some hooligans knocked over a dustbin in Shaftesbury.

Bill Hicks

#5. The path of Zen is not easy. It's wonderful. It's beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most people will in a thousand lifetimes.

Frederick Lenz

#6. If a product has an endless list of ingredients, and you can't pronounce half of them, I would think twice about bringing them into your home.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#7. How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#8. No one knows what it's like ... to be a dustbin ... in Shaftesbury ... with hooligans ...

Bill Hicks

#9. She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.

Jamie Foxx

#10. It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. In my trailer, I work out with free weights and do situps and push-ups. I'm just trying to stay lean and active looking.

Norman Reedus

#12. You're such a book girl.

Mizuki Nomura

#13. We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."

John Keats

#14. I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

Birch Bayh

#15. The last I saw of him was of a dark blue back marching towards Shaftesbury Avenue; eternally the victor in a war where the losers win.

John Fowles

#16. Call me Sunset. I'm always moving west.

Raymond Chandler

#17. War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return.

Frederic C. Howe

#18. It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.

Shirley Henderson