"If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically."

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Source : Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.199, Grove Press

Alan Ayckbourn

#Women Quotes #Believe Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression”
“Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.”
“Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows thatâ€™s all she can do. That and hope.”
“Success is the sum of details.”
“In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.”
“My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way.”
“Itâ€™s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. Itâ€™s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something Iâ€™ve never gotten the hang of.Â But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And thatâ€™s what jazz music is all about.”
“In 1976 I was working in the Gulf Country around Cape York, in an aboriginal community of about 300 people. The Health Department sent around a team and vaccinated about 100 of them against flu. Six were dead within 24 hours or so and they weren't all old people, one man being in his early twenties. They threw the bodies in trucks to take to the coast where autopsies were done. It appeared they had died from heart attacks.”

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