"Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault That into practice they can ne'er be brought."

-- Charles Churchill

#Pain Quotes #Wine Quotes #School Quotes

“We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.”
“A fragrance is like a dress, an expression of personality. It can be both erotic or powerful, or both, but it always combines femininity and sensuality.”
“I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty...”
“My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.”
“Happy girls are always the prettiest”
“The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years.”
“Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.”
“I didnâ€™t say, You are such a stuffy asshole. And he didnâ€™t say, If you ever burn one of my quarter-of-a-million dollar rugs again Iâ€™ll take it out of your hide, and I didnâ€™t say, Oh, honey, wouldnâ€™t you like to? And he didnâ€™t say Grow up, Ms. Lane, I donâ€™t take little girls to my bed, and I didnâ€™t say I wouldnâ€™t go there if it was the only safe place from the Lord Master in all of Dublin.”

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