Reading books Quote by Guy Vanderhaeghe

“This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana.”

— Jane Grigson

“They looked like two apes pounding their chest and asking for a banana. The thing about me—I was not so willing to give just…

— Krista Ritchie

“When principles are so absurd and so destructive of human society, it may safely be averred, that the more sincere and the more disinterested…

— David Hume

“the chief principle of banana-ism is that of kleptocracy, whereby those in positions of influence use their time in office to maximize their own…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The banana flavour of his accidental conception, and the banana theme of his accidental death, now all seemed to conspire against him and rather…

— Tom Conrad

“In between bites of banana, Mr. Remora would tell stories, and the children would write the stories down in notebooks, and every so often…

— Lemony Snicket

“The first thing a principle does is to kill somebody. --Gaudy Night”

— Dorothy Sayers

“Mankind is close to savagery and must live by rules. If not, we would sink into our own animal nature and perish.”

— Noah Gordon

“We were like bananas. Stuck together, we were ripe and yellow. But the moment one was torn apart, all the rest turned black and…

— Kit Lyman

“I wouldn’t know how to seduce a monkey into eating a banana.”

— Paula Garner

“We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English; and the English are the best at everything. So…

— William Golding