quotes about Duchess

“The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.”

“Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.”

“Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it's mark on our heart's sky.”

“Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.”

“Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.”

Source : Lawana Blackwell (2008). “Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, The”, p.262, Bethany House

“Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.”

“I've never been starstruck but I may have wanted to strike a star once or twice.”

“Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.”

Source : "The English Patient". Book by Anthony Minghella, 1996.

“Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.”

“I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since 1776, are continuing to move apart, and that existing elements of linguistic dissimilarity between them will intensify as time goes on, notwithstanding the power of the cinema, TV, Time Magazine, and other two-way gluing and fuelling devices.”