Sportif Quotes

#1. Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.

Hamish Bowles

#2. In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside whose gates at night the willingly betrayed husband waits in his motorcar. The circumstances were slightly.

V.S. Naipaul

#3. What I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the 'Blue Danube' and shove some tea into ourselves. And over the pot and muffins I shall have something veryimportant to say to you.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. We should be used to it," Tatiana reasons. "There have always been lines separating us from the rest of the world, whether they were satin ribbons or iron rails.

Sarah Miller

#5. Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

Charles Dickens

#6. The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

Alan King

#7. When you run, run to me

Catherine Anderson

#8. Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

C.S. Lewis