Feeding Quote by Karen Chance

“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.”

— Eleanor Catton

Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?

— Brad Meltzer

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.

— Preston Brooks

“I'm tempted to point out that our dealings, however unusual and close, were the dealings of businessmen. My ease with this state of affairs…

— Joseph O'Neill

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

— Zebulon Pike

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth.…

— John le Carre

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

— Joe Biden

“The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as…

— Victor Hugo

In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his fancy into…

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being…

— Herman Melville

“They were, doubtless, good men, just and sage. But, out of the whole human family, it would not have been easy to select the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

— Graham Greene