"Silence in woman is like speech in man."

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Ben Jonson

#Men Quotes #Silence Quotes #Speech Quotes

“I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2009). “The Lady Julia Grey Bundle: Silent in the Grave\Silent in the Sanctuary\Silent on the Moor”, p.867, MIRA
“To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.”
“Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.”
“Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l.”
“In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.”
“Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.”
“It is a frequently cited fact that English has two sets of words for farm animals and their corresponding meats. The living animals are expressed with words of Germanic origin-calf (German 'Kalb'), swine (G. 'Schwein'), and ox (G. 'Ochse')-because the servants who guarded them were the conquered Anglo-Saxons. The names of the meats are of Romance origin-veal (French 'veau'), pork (F. 'porc') and beef (F. 'boeuf')-because those who enjoyed them were the conquering Norman masters.”
“I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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