Thursday, June 30, 2011

Clever Quotes

I've been doing a LOT of reading lately and wanted to share a few of my fave quotes from recent books.

From Little Bee by Chris Cleave: ...... I then started to think about ways I would kill myself in different points in history. Queen Victoria's time- drink the water. Churchill's time- stand outside during the blitz. Henry VIII's time- marry Henry VIII.....


From Irrepressible, The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford: .... The House Commitee of Un-American Activities they had thought bizarre.... a joke... Imagine a committee on un-English activities. What's that? Not taking tea?


From Diana Mosley by Jan Dalley:... In 1929 Oswald Mosely acquire a flat in Ebury Street, only a few hundred yards from the family house in Smith Square, supposedly so that he had peace and quiet in which to get his ministerial work done, and for political meetings. However, this flat had one enormous and palatial room, with a large bed on a raised dais in a curtained alcove at one end: only the most naive could have thought it was a place where Mosley might entertain Ramsay Macdonald or other members of the Labour cabinet.

From Counting My Chickens by The Duchess of Devonshire: Could some clever reader tell me what a quantum leap is and where I can see one performed? Who the chattering classes are and where I can listen to them? And what a learning curve is and how I can climb onto one?


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