A Collection of Quotes

"If you were my husband, I'd poison your coffee."
...Lady Nancy Astor once told Winston Churchill
"If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
...replied Churchill

"The aim of oratory is not truth but persuasion."
...Thomas Macauley

"The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
...Oscar Wilde

"Saint Augustine admonishes we should never use the truth to wound. In the dark hours of our souls, how many of us beleive those words were written for us."
...James Lee Burke in 'In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead'

"Some creatures have the ability to fill voids we did not know existed."
...Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, speaking of his Arabian horse in the holodeck

"If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: The rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time."
...Chinese proverb