"Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails."

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Source : Cecil Maurice Bowra (2005). “New Bats in Old Belfries: Or Some Loose Tiles”

Maurice Bowra

#Awkward Quotes #Cocktails Quotes #Hours Quotes

“No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.”
“I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.”
“Vaccination is a public health issue because influenza is a highly contagious disease. If you don't vaccinate your child, his or her schoolmates are much more likely to become ill. That is why some places (New York, for example) are making the vaccine mandatory for school children.”

Source : Source: www.newyorker.com
“The sun shines not on us but in us.”
“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
“We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.”

Source : "Venezuelan Democracy Gets Its Day In Court" by Leopoldo Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2011.
“Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anythingâ€”about everything I own in the world.”
“Do you know anything about fashion magazines? Being treated like superficial bimbos by men like you, and having to write about designer brands. Do you know what that feels like?”

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