Quotes with after-dinner

Quotes 821 till 840 of 921.

  • Molière We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Rodney Dangerfield We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Ali Smith We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
    (2012)
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • John Lennon We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • Abdul Qadeer Khan Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.
    Abdul Qadeer Khan
    Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Hardy Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock We’re after the drawing-room type, the real ladies, who become whores once they’re in the bedroom.
    François Truffaut - Hitchcock/Truffaut
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Walt Whitman What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Helen Rowland What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Conrad What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Oscar Wilde What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Audre Lorde What do we want from each other
    after we have told our stories.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Carl Stokes What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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  • Samuel Butler What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, ''I bet that my Redeemer liveth.''
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ernest Hemingway What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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