Patricia Russo quotes

  • History is the great propagator of doubt.

  • The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

  • Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.

  • I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

  • There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

  • What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

  • I am not confident that Europe can make it.

  • The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

  • Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

  • Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?