Spies Michael Frayn Uncle Peter Quotes

#1. As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

Edward Levi

#2. He kissed her so gently she wondered if she had imagined it. She pulled back slightly, to look into his eyes. And then there was a shot.

Jodi Picoult

#3. Allowance, by convention, and because it is felt to be the right and proper thing to love them. And in the sect - fairly large and yet unusually choice of Austenians or Janites, there would

Jane Austen

#4. God knows of love

Leo Tolstoy

#5. I put a bowl of peanuts in front of Henry, along with a tall Sprite, thought better of it, and replaced the peanuts with pretzels. Henry seemed like he might be the type of kid who would be horribly allergic to peanuts. That was just what I needed tonight.

Amy Harmon

#6. If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.

Michael Schumacher

#7. Prayer releases your problems to God.

Jim George

#8. By God," quod he, "for pleynly, at a word,
Thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a toord!

Geoffrey Chaucer

#9. Quivering eyelids closed over wild eyeballs. Paddleball heartbeat, awake beneath the costume of sleep.

Ainslie Hogarth

#10. We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings?

Michael Leunig

#11. If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.

George Herbert