"The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is."

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Source : "Noblesse oblige: an enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy".

Nancy Mitford

#Cynical Quotes #Lord Quotes

“Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'”
“Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?”
“Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.”
“Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer.”
“I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.”

Source : Source: reflections.yale.edu
“The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.”
“The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.”
“Bible study is the most essential ingredient in the believer's spiritual life, because it is only in study of the Bible as that is blessed by the Holy Spirit that Christians hear Christ and discover what it means to follow Him.”

Source : James Montgomery Boice (1998). “Christ's Call to Discipleship”, p.52, Kregel Publications

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