Bathing Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“At five in the morning, some policemen, unannounced, entered the house of a man named Pardon, later a member of the section of the…

— Victor Hugo

“So also to Sir Robert Peel was Catholic Emancipation horrible, so was Reform of Parliament, so was the Corn Law Repeal. They were horrible…

— Anthony Trollope

“the victims chosen by the mobs at the time of the Stamp Act were struck not simply because they supported or were presumed to…

— Robert Middlekauff

“As the year goes on, certain deputies—and others, high in public life—will appear unshaven, without coat or cravat; or they will jettison these marks…

— Hilary Mantel

“Now he had chanced on one of he standard hard-on sessions of the shower, as on both sides of him and across the room…

— Alan Hollinghurst

Lieutenant Governor Paterson - blind, black guy - gets sworn in. First thing he says is, 'By the way, cheated on my wife. Let's…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

“This man who in the pursuit of his aims could be so utterly ruthless—who would let nothing stand in his way; who, in the…

— Robert A. Caro

“Some slaves, however, were "too white to keep." That was how Edmund was described by the man who had sold him from Tennessee. The…

— Walter Johnson

He looked at their shabby clothes in puzzlement. “We were traveling anonymously for safety—” explained the magus. “But surely—” “—and then we were robbed…

— Megan Whalen Turner

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but…

— William Hull

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

— Ellen Glasgow