"Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits."

-- Maria Edgeworth

#Curious Quotes #Wit Quotes

“They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.”
“Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.”
“Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.”
“People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.”

Source : "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.
“I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.”

Source : "CNN Saturday" with Catherine Callaway, www.cnn.com. July 20, 2002.
“God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure!”

Source : "American Political Rhetoric: Essential Speeches and Writings on Founding Principles and Contemporary Controversies" by Peter Augustine Lawler, The Danger Threatening Representative Government (1897), August 16, 2010.
“Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.”

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