Affair Quotes · Page 18

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

— Winston Churchill

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

— Hillary Clinton

“Is kissing you generally considered a joyful affair?" -”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Marriage is too important to be treated like a love affair

— Richard Steele Sr

Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.

— Frederic Tuten

Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.

— William C. Oates

“The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is…

— Zicheng Hong

“He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right…

— Donna Lynn Hope

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy…

— George Bernard Shaw

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

— Mary McCarthy

In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her…

— Cardinal Mazarin

The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

— Marthe Bibesco

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but…

— Robertson Davies

And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic…

— Ralph Bunche

Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and…

— Baltasar Gracian

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers…

— Carl Jung

Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say…

— Albert Einstein

Even if corners were cut, (Iran-Contra) was a brilliant scheme. There is no possibility that anyone in any Democratic administration would have…

— Ann Coulter

Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.…

— Henry David Thoreau

We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states]…

— James Madison

He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the…

— Neil Tennant

“Bring Cecily home,” he said curtly. “I won’t have her at risk, even in the slightest way.” “I’ll take care of Cecily,”…

— Diana Palmer

If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed…

— John Adams

Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and…

— Benjamin Tucker

For most couples who come to me - especially in the aftermath of the revelation of an affair, when they are in…

— Esther Perel

If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified…

— Charles A. Beard

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

— Maurice Ravel

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

— Anonymous

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

— Franz Beckenbauer

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

— Alfred Kazin

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

— Susan Sontag

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

— Loretta Chase

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

— Anna Chlumsky

Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

— Mason Cooley