The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had ordered ...his punishment commuted to imprisonment ... and had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Andrews: You married him only because I told you not to. Ellie: You've been telling me what not to do ever since I can rememb...er. Andrews: That's because you've always been a stubborn idiot. Ellie: I come from a long line of stubborn idiots.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Andrews: Do you love her? Peter: A normal human being couldn't live under the same roof with her without going nutty. She's m...y idea of nothing! Andrews: I asked you a simple question. Do you love her? Peter: Yes! But don't hold it against me. I'm a little screwy myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Andrews: Do you mind if I ask a question frankly? Do you love my daughter? Peter: Any guy that'd fall in love with your daugh...ter ought to have his head examined. Andrews: Now that's an evasion. Peter: She grabbed herself a perfect running mate. King Westley! The pill of the century. What she needs is a guy that'd take a sock at her once a day, whether it's coming to her or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lilly Dillon: How'd you get that punch in the stomach, Roy? Roy Dillon: I tripped on a chair.... Lilly Dillon: Get off the grift, Roy. Roy Dillon: Why? Lilly Dillon: You haven't got the stomach for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The raven is my talisman.... Death is my talisman, Mr. Chapman. The one indestructible force. The one certain thing in an uncertai...n universe. Death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alike in so many ways, united by so many indestructible bonds, the two brothers were still different men. John Kennedy remained, a...s Paul Dever had said, the Brahmin; Robert, the Puritan. In English terms one was a Whig, the other, a Radical. John Kennedy was urbane, objective, analytical, controlled, contained, masterful, a man of perspective; Robert, while very bright and increasingly reflective, was more open, exposed, emotional, subjective, intense, a man of commitment. One was a man for whom everything seemed easy; the other a man for whom everything had been difficult. One was always graceful, the other often graceless. Meeting Robert for the first time in 1963, Roy Jenkins of England thought him "staccato, inarticulate ... much less rounded, much less widely informed, much less at ease with the world of power than his brother." John Kennedy, while taking part in things, seemed, as Tom Wicker observed, almost to watch himself take part and to criticize his own performance; Robert "lost himself in the event."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go tie back your hair, said my mother, and Why is your mouth all green?... Rob Roy, he pulled some clover as we crossed the field, I told her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »