“Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.”
“If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.”
“I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking”
“You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men.”
“The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle”
“Sometimes an abundance of sympathy can be more overwhelming than solitude”
“Good night, good night, parting is such sweet sorrow,' she whispered
'That I shall say good night till it be morrow,' Harry replied.”
“only a fool blames the messenger.”
“Some clever children don’t discover how bright they are until after they’ve left school,’ continued Mr Holcombe, ‘and then spend the rest of their lives regretting the wasted years.”
“The English are the biggest snobs on earth Harry.”
“This is the BBC in London. You will now hear a statement from the Prime Minister.” “I am speaking to you from the Cabinet room, Ten Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German government a final note, stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o’clock, that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now, that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently, this country is at war with Germany.”
“Some people stand by you in your darkest hour, while others walk away; only a select few march toward you and become even closer friends.”
“Clifton, in life you get what you deserve, no more and certainly no less.”
“if you make a deal with a fool, don’t be surprised when they act foolishly.”
“I watched Hugo Barrington when he gave his evidence. The same self-confidence, the same arrogance, the same half-truths spouted convincingly to the jury, just as he’d whispered them to me in the privacy of the bedroom.”
“the worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of battle.”
“Sometimes it’s an advantage to be disadvantaged,”
“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’, which, Mr Holcombe pointed out, contained every letter in the alphabet. I checked, and he turned out to be right.”
“I find I don’t learn a lot while I’m talking,”
“Seven pounds, nine shillings and sixpence turned out to be the value they’d put on Arthur’s life. I sat alone at the kitchen table, and I think that was the moment I knew I’d never see my husband again.”
“sometimes an abundance of sympathy can be more overwhelming than solitude. Giles”
“I’ll bet you can’t tell me who designed the garden. I’ll give you a clue: it’s later than the house.’ ‘I’ve only ever heard of one landscape gardener,’ said Harry, still staring at the house. ‘Capability Brown.’ ‘That’s exactly why we chose him,’ said Giles, ‘simply so that my friends would have heard of the fellow two hundred years later.’ Harry”
“At least, not until she met Patrick Casey, who proved that the charm of the Irish was not just a cliche.”
“Ideas smack of rebellion and rebellions must be put”
“I should have prepared you for a brand of snobbery that no other nation on earth can emulate.”
“And then he realized—it had to be Tom Bradshaw’s father.”
“He didn’t understand religion. It was like heroin or golf: He knew a lot of people did it, but he didn’t understand why.”
“Someday I was going to have to clean out my memory-attic, and it wasn’t going to be pretty.”
“It's usually the father who teaches the child his first moves in the game. And the dream of any son who plays chess is to beat his father. To kill the king. Besides, it soon becomes evident in chess that the father, or the king, is the weakest piece on the board. He's under continual act, in constant need of protection, of such tactics as castling, and he can only move one square at a time. Paradoxically, the king is also indispensable. The king gives the game its name, since the word 'chess' derives from the Persian word shah meaning king, and is pretty much the same in most languages.”
“There is something that I’ll need to discuss with you if you agree to marry me, but it isn’t that I’m terminally ill. I’m not ill at all.” “You want to marry me?” Terri asked with pleasure. Bastien rolled his eyes. “Terri, honey. I just flew two thousand three hundred miles chasing after you. It wasn’t to ask you on a date.” “Oh, Bastien!” She launched herself off the couch. Bastien caught her with an, “oomph,” then found his face peppered with little butterfly kisses.”
“They have kept us apart for a thousand generations, Kachiun. They have ridden us until we were nothing more than savage dogs. That is the past. I have brought us together and they will be trembling. I’ll give them cause.”
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