"I'd rather live precariously in my own office……" — Peter Mayle
"I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's."
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25 Quotes by Peter Mayle
Peter Mayle has 25 quotes on this site.
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Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we…
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Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two…
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Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear…
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The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to…
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I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of…
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Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and…
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It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side…
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There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .
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Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.
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Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.
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Best advice I've ever received: Finish.
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Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.
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More Comfortably Quotes
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one of 166 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a…
— Richard Sibbes
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All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.
— Ken Venturi
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The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's…
— Alan Shepard
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Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
— Harriet Martineau
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One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than…
— George Eliot
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To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own…
— Vincent D'Onofrio
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If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and…
— Sun Tzu
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People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if…
— Herman Melville
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One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.
— Verner Panton
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From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem…
— Eddie Murphy
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