"An unemployed electrician,whom I had been taunting with my reminder of how much richer I was, leaned forward and said:'What are your qualifications? I know exactly what your qualifications are.You bent over in the shower to pick up some soap at Eton and Harrow, like all the rest of them."

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Source : Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

Auberon Waugh

#Eton Quotes #Soap Quotes #Bent Quotes

“... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.”
“If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.”

Source : Gary Smalley (1996). “The Keys to Growing in Love”, Bbs Publishing Corporation
“It was never too late to undo who you had become.”
“You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means your brain is receiving information from your body what your car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.”
“Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.”
“It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.”
“We want more than there is.”
“I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.”

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