The Constant Gardener Book Quotes

#1. It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see, Buddhism teaches that women are evil. Fiends. Messengers of hell. I've spent years immersed in the scriptures, so it's no accident that you and I fight all the time.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#2. Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

Paul McCartney

#3. I'm the Iblis. There's a sword, and it's magical, and I can locate demons. It was total bullshit, but I'm not good at making stuff up on the fly.

Debra Dunbar

#4. The chains that held my left leg were about two yards long, and gave me not only the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semicircle, but, being fixed within four inches of the gate, allowed me to creep in, and lie at my full length in the temple. ,

Jonathan Swift

#5. The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.

Harvey MacKay

#6. I'm as clean as a whistle.

Tommy Chong

#7. In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

Paul A. Baran

#8. The next day the government of South Africa announced that full civil rights would be restored to the white minority.

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

Grace Abbott

#10. He carefully studies the position that he intends to conquer.

Paulo Coelho

#11. If we cannot persuade our friends by reasons we must be content "and not bring a mercenary army to our aid" (He meant passions.)

C.S. Lewis

#12. There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.

Arthur Schopenhauer