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More Fortnight Quotes

This quote is filed under Fortnight Quotes, one of 28 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than… — Cyril Connolly
• It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end,… — D. H. Lawrence
• Sometimes, when something really great happens to me, I like to wait two weeks before I tell anyone about it,… — Demetri Martin
• In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change… — John Hume
• Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but… — Jane Austen
• In my local newspaper, they had this advert: 'please look after your neighbours in the cold weather'. I live next… — Jack Dee
• For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out… — Graham Nelson
• Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it.… — Eamon de Valera
• In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. — Joseph Chamberlain
• In London, I've always lived within 10 miles of where I was born. You see, there is something called a… — Peter Ackroyd
• I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm… — Katherine Jenkins
• When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. — Samuel Johnson

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