"Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic."

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Source : E. M. Delafield (2015). “The Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated): The Provincial Lady Series, Zella Sees Herself, The War-Workers, Consequences, Gay Life, The Heel of Achilles, Humbug, Messalina of the Suburbs (Including Short Stories and Plays)”, p.2680, e-artnow

E. M. Delafield

#Average Quotes #Language Quotes #Characteristics Quotes

“You go into the voting booths and you can rank your choices. So your first choice is an underdog that might not win, you know, that your choice number two, which might be your lesser evil, your safety choice, your vote is automatically reassigned from your first choice to your second choice if your first choice losses and there's not a majority winner. So it essentially eliminates, splitting it, eliminates having to vote your fear instead of your values.”
“The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (2009). “Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity”, p.360, Applewood Books
“Religious truth is not false for being narrow any more than mathematical or scientific truth is false for the same reason.”
“Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a boy in college once called her, begging her to let it grow. Right! That was all she needed: wild curls cascading down her back like a doomed Shakespearian virgin, or a rock star.”

Source : Naomi Ragen (2001). “The Ghost of Hannah Mendes”, p.70, Macmillan
“Bollywood has got this rare quality where it dances, but it still has a depth of a sad song at the same time. It's really strange. They kind of manage to do two things at once. We do a ballad, or a dance song, and it's very difficult. They kind of mix those two things together. It's pretty impressive, beautiful music.”
“A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!”
“Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.”

Source : Twitter post from May 11, 2013
“An extremely competitive retail market is pushing extensive discounting and large volumes of wine at low prices, and New World competitors from South America and South Africa are also impacting on the market.”

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