"The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter."

-- Horace

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“I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.”
“My manager has a car payment, so I work every night.”
“One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.”
“It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.”

Source : Trewin Copplestone, Edgar Degas (1998). “Edgar Degas”, Gramercy Books
“Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.”
“Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.”
“If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.”

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