Life Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

“Not to every young girl is it given to enter the harem of the Sultan of Turkey and return to her homeland a virgin.”

— Dorothy Dunnett

“We are Turks with the affections of our women; and have made them subscribe to our doctrine too. We let their bodies go abroad…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“The Turks have dreary jails.”

— Lawrence Block

“Turks say, 'water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.”

— Bram Stoker

The great thing about the Young Turks is that we've always stayed true to our principles.

— Ana Kasparian

It is legitimate for the Turks to try to defend themselves.

— Barack Obama

“The Turk and the devils break through without any trouble and lay everything waste, because God does not want His people to trust in…

— Martin Luther

There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

My father's father fought to free Crete from the Turks, who expelled my mother from her ancestral home in Asia Minor in 1922. So…

— Mikis Theodorakis

“I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember…

— Charles Darwin

“Item, I've read that there's not a single virgin to be found in your country," said the statesman. "Where might you have read this?"…

— Halldór Laxness

“Politics in Turkey are taken more seriously than they are at home. It was only quite recently that they executed a Prime Minister. We…

— Graham Greene