Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the fac...e. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said "Box about: 'twill come to my father anon."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Louise Bryant: I'm sorry if you don't believe in mutual independence and free love and respect. Eugene O'Neill: Don't give me... a lot of parlor socialism that you learned in the village. If you were mine, I wouldn't share you with anybody or anything. It would be just you and me. You'd be at the center of it all. You know it would feel a lot more like love than being left alone with your work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fact alone that both, like Chatham before them, were great war ministers, links their names inseparably. Beyond that, they sha...red many qualities in common: unquenchable vitality, restless energy, personal magnetism, and an inspiring power of oratory. They were alike also in their defects: opportunism, total lack of consideration for others, and a degree of egotism that can only be termed infantile. Lloyd George, however, whom Lord Haldane once called "an illiterate with an unbalanced mind," lacked both the versatility and the intellectual power of Churchill. Where Sir Winston found relaxation in Macauley or Gibbon, Lloyd George in his prime amused himself with cheap detective fiction. The latter, cast in an inferior mold, lacked also the personal courage of his younger colleague and successor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what tho...se two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Princess Dala: If I were my father, I'd have you tortured. Sir Charles: No, if you were your father I doubt very much if I wo...uld have kissed you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Simone Clouseau: Jacques would make a wonderful father. He has many redeeming qualities, you know. Sir Charles: Name one. .../>Simone Clouseau: Oh, he's kind, loyal, faithful, obedient. Sir Charles: You're either married to a boy scout or a dachshund.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sir Charles: Aren't you drinking? Princess Dala: I don't drink.... Sir Charles: Never? Princess Dala: I'm quite content with reality, I have no need for escape. Sir Charles: Well, I enjoy reality as much as the next man, it's just in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »