"The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear."

-- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

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“Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards. This is your life and mine. I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.”
“I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.”
“Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.”
“The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.”

Source : FaceBook post by Muriel Spark from Oct 28, 2014
“The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.”
“You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.”
“You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.”

Source : "The Eternity Cure (Blood of Eden)". Book by Julie Kagawa, 2013.
“In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I ask, can man be in control if he can't even draw up a plan for a ridiculously short period of time, say, a thousand years, and is, moreover, unable to ensure his own safety for even the next day?”

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