If this creature is a murderer, then so are we all. This snake has killed one British soldier; we have killed many. This is not mu...rder, gentlemen. This is war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains,... Jest roll to your rifle an' blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whist Partner: Great Caesar's Ghost. A woman! In the Club. Phileas Fogg: My dear, I must ask you to leave these precincts at ...once. No woman has ever set foot in the Club. Aouda: Why not? Phileas Fogg: Because that could spell the end of the British Empire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel of ...activity and service. They had reared their children and seen them take flight; moreover, they had fought through the war, their hearts in the field, their fingers plying needle and thread. They had been active in committees and commissions, the country over; had learned to work with and beside men, finding joy and companionship and inspiration in such work. How could they go back to the chimney-corner life of the fifties?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because wretches will dash a club... against a pin-prick, even though we live in the same village, I can't even look at my lover with both eyes at once.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. I...t might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' ClubLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »