Quotations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
La quinta columna.
The fifth column. [Comment on hopes of civilian uprising in Madrid, 1937]
- Emilio Mola quotes
Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking
- John Morley quotes
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
- Martina Navratilova quotes
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
- Ulysses S Grant quotes
Labour have already given parents the power to draw up plans for their own schools
- Jim Knight quotes
Labour is itself a pleasure
- Manilius quotes
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong
- F W Faber quotes
Labour tend to believe it's all or nothing. You're either a stay at home mum or a career woman.
- Michael Howard quotes
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
- Adam Smith quotes
Labour, despite all their rhetoric and no doubt their good intentions, haven't been able to deliver.
- Malcolm Rifkind quotes
Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life
- Napoleon Hill quotes
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
- George Bernard Shaw quotes
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
- Flower A Newhouse quotes
Ladies playing cricket - absurd. Just like a man trying to knit.
- Len Hutton quotes
Ladies were ladies in those days; they did not do things themselves (Period Piece)
- Gwen Raverat quotes
Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: 'Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.'
Churchill's reply: 'Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.'
- Winston Churchill quotes
Lady, if I were built in proportion, I'd be 8ft 10.
- Joel Garner quotes
LaMotta couldn't punch at all but he was tough, kept coming.
- Fritzie Zivic quotes
Lampsy, I reckon. The girls like him a little bit. If I was that way I'd see something in him [on the best looking chelsea player]
- John Terry quotes
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
- Margaret Mitchell quotes
Landing a role now is not based on my looks - more on my acting ability.
- Jude Law quotes
Landon is talking now. He's saying 'Yo!' all the time and his mother doesn't like it. When he goes out, people want to shadow-box with him - he holds his hands up, throws punches and says 'Box! Box!
[on his son]
- Lennox Lewis quotes
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
- Robert Hughes quotes
Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes
- John Clare quotes
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
- Claude Levi-Strauss quotes
Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.
- Kelly Fordyce quotes
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
- Humphrey Davy quotes
Language is the dress of thought.
- Samuel Johnson quotes
Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms
- Penelope Lively quotes
Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich quotes
Lapdancing and establishments full of scantily clad women? Yes, they are categorised the same as a pub or bar - only in Britain!
- Anonymous quotes
Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding
- Xi Zhi quotes
Last chance. Basically, last chance. [on what the Ashes mean to him]
- Graham Thorpe quotes
Last Christmas (2006) was a real, real low point [she was dumped from her record label and her husband MC Harvey left her for her friend Javine Hylton]. Look at me now, I've learned to dance. I'm happy and I believe it was meant to happen. This was the best Christmas present a girl could ask for.
- Alesha Dixon quotes
Last guys don't finish nice.
- Stanley Keeley quotes
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
- James Thurber quotes
Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
- Tommy Cooper quotes
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. (Rebecca, 1938)
- Daphne Du Maurier quotes
Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.
- Ron Fairly quotes
Last one to kill a bad guy buys the beer... (Friends)
- Matt Le Blanc quotes
