Woad Quotes

#1. Ruddy hell, the cold smacked my face with an iron spade! Now I knew why northerners go in for beards, woad, and body grease.

David Mitchell

#2. But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

Boris Johnson

#3. Speak success into existence.

Bianca Frazier

#4. The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."

Paul Harvey

#6. To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.

Amartya Sen

#7. If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.

Henry Paulson

#8. England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.

Natalia Ginzburg