Treasonable Crossword Quotes

#1. I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

Michelle Dockery

#2. I'm not ready. These are the three magic words. I've discovered they can get you out of almost anything.

Jennifer Niven

#3. By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.

Rose Schneiderman

#4. And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every time I did something wrong, but come on, when you live in a sin-free family with sin-free parents and a sin-free sister, well, you can't help but sin a little extra on their behalf.

Han Nolan

#5. Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.

Steve Toltz

#6. What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

#7. Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity. Irrespective of whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, whether Buddhist, Christian, or Jew, the important thing is to be a good human being.

Dalai Lama

#8. Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

Teresa Of Avila

#9. I don't like desperate people. They tend to do desperate things. Desperate people should be placated until you can get as far away from them as humanly possible, because desperate people had a bad tendency of blowing up and taking you with them. I

Donna Augustine

#10. It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

Neil Postman

#11. I'm like Will Rogers, I never met a man I didn't like ... well, Eichmann maybe.

Jack Benny

#12. Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Dean Acheson

#13. I'm not going to have what I want from you until you've reached the end of the road with him. I've got all the time in the world. I can wait 'til you get there.

Sylvia Day

#14. The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Nathanael Howe

#15. The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,

Banksy