Suchlike Quotes

#1. The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.

Gail Carriger

#2. When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the 'recline' in recliner.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#3. I said: 'Thou thing of patches, rings,
Pins, necklaces and suchlike things,
Disguiser of the female form,
Thou paltry, gilded poisonous worm!

William Blake

#4. There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling 'black boxes' - pure magic to most people.

Martin Rees

#5. I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

David Tang

#6. A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

Michel De Montaigne

#7. How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig.

Marcus Aurelius

#8. Aunt Flo's love is not a soft thing, I think, but something hard and unyielding, which can be good or bad.

Jan Strnad

#9. Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

Gary Larson

#10. You should ask the president what he thinks about America,

Scott Walker

#11. I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.

Norm MacDonald

#12. Unfortunately, my love life is nil. I'm working too much - but I would like to settle down at some point.

Richard Armitage

#13. We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

Mark Twain

#14. Power sits uneasily on those one has grown up with. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Spy.

John Le Carre

#15. A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

Beverley Nichols