"London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Government Quotes #Law Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy, and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight!”
“Never listen to a phone call that isn't meant for you. Never read a letter that isn't meant for you. Never pay attention to a comment that isn't meant for you. Never violate people's privacy. You will save yourself a lot of anguish.”
“Being able to disappear and appear and go through walls and fly with the speed of thought isn't going to make you half as happy as to see those you witnessed to, Hi there! Wow, didn't I meet you on the streets? Didn't I talk to you about Jesus? Wow! Here you are! Hallelujah! That's going to be the biggest thrill of all!”
“When I started making films, I wanted to make Frank Capra pictures. But I`ve never been able to make anything but these crazy, tough pictures. You are what you are.”
“Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.”

Source : Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt (1958). “The Goncourt journals, 1851-1870”
“It is an inconvenience, being located in a city where taxes are ludicrously high, where you pay twice your annual income to rent an apartment that could easily be carried on a commercial airline flight.”
“One thing is for sure, a World Cup without me is nothing to watch so it is not worthwhile to wait for the World Cup.”
“In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.”

You may also like:

David Lloyd George
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Duke of Wellington
Former First Lord of the Treasury
Nadine Dorries
Member of Parliament
Otto von Bismarck
Statesman
Queen Victoria
Former Queen regnant
Robert Peel
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
William E. Gladstone
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Isaac D'Israeli
Writer
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Former Lord Privy Seal