"Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex."

“Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 2-3, Address to the Electors of the City of London (April 6, 1859), 1922.

“Set a thief to catch a thief.”

Source : Hesiod, Callimachus, James Davies, Theognis, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1856). “The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis”, p.207, London : H.G. Bohn

“You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”

“We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.”

Source : "Dwayne’s World" by Dan Carney, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

“Being gay doesn't mean that you are less than anybody else. It's just who you are.”

“It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.”

“The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes.”

Source : Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.58, A&C Black

“It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.”

Source : William Alexander Percy (1973). “Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son”, p.286, LSU Press