"It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life."

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Source : Stacy Schiff (2010). “Cleopatra: A Life”, p.255, Hachette UK

Stacy Schiff

#Sex Quotes #Brain Quotes #Her Beauty Quotes

“The quality of leaders matters less than the quality of citizens.”
“... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.--There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass.”
“...no place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.”
“It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.”
“Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.”

Source : Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Aulus Persius Flaccus, John Dryden (1693). “The Satires, Translated Into English Verse by J. Dryden ... Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus Made English by Mr. Dryden”
“We try to prevent the creation of artificial rents. Rather than setting up quotas to stop imports we levy a tariff, that would be better. Or we pay wages in the public sector which are roughly equivalent to the productivity in the private sector and we don't therefore make it a special benefit to get a bureaucratic position.”

Source : Source: www.aims.ca
“Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.”
“Why are we putting people who are already in a vulnerable position through this dreadful, appalling stress?”

Source : House of Commons Debate, publications.parliament.uk. February 27, 2014.

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