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
Valour is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
- Carl Sandburg quotes
Values such as holding a door open for a woman, helping a mother off a train with a pushchair or up an escalator, worrying what time my daughter will be home and whether she is escorted, buying flowers and paying for dinner, etc.
- Mike Newell quotes
Van Persie obviously thought 'Why take the p*** out of poor old Southampton? I'll get sent off and make a game of it'.
- Harry Redknapp quotes
Vandelism is as beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.
- Kurt Cobain quotes
Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each other since George W. Bush's inauguration. Not only that, Bill and his wife, Hillary, haven't spoken since Richard Nixon's.
- Conan O'Brien quotes
Vanity, like murder, will out (The Belle's Strategem)
- Hannah Cowley quotes
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
- William Osler quotes
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
- Jean Paul Richter quotes
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.
- William Cowper quotes
Vaughan has been a wonderful leader, quietly inspirational and shrewd. To be the best, England must beat the Aussies in Australia, but let's rejoice in the moment
- Michael Parkinson quotes
Vaughan has said winning the World Cup is his next priority but I'm not convinced he really means it
- Geoff Boycott quotes
Vaughan has scored just 84 runs from six innings in the series [on being out of form against South Africa]
- Jonathan Agnew quotes
Vaughan's good at making things happen, changing bowlers around, and on top of all that seems to command - in a quiet but firm manner - the respect of everybody around him.
- Geoff Boycott quotes
Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's [on film Layer Cake]
- Will Self quotes
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
- Jim Davis quotes
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
- Fran Lebowitz quotes
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
- Truman Capote quotes
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
- Quintilian quotes
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
- Philip Crosby quotes
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
- P J O'Rourke quotes
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
- Arthur Christopher Benson quotes
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
- Janet Frame quotes
Very often when we stay in a hotel we will rent a single room with a piano in it, buy loads of drinks and do this stuff. writing songs is my favourite pastime ever.
- Vince Clarke quotes
Vic, have you farted?
(Vic: No).
What, never?
- Bob Mortimer quotes
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue
- Juvenal quotes
Vicky Pollard is brilliant.
- Noel Gallagher quotes
Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.
- Matthew Perry quotes
Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
- Tacitus quotes
Victoria Beckham is a very glamorous lady, but I think she's ill.
- Sarah Harding quotes
Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.
- Douchan Gersi quotes
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon Bonaparte quotes
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon Bonaparte quotes
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower quotes
Victory is a thing of the will
- Ferdinand Foch quotes
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
- Malcolm Forbes quotes
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
- Walt Whitman quotes
Villa was disappointing. When you lose at home, it always feels much worse. It is like being burgled
- Gareth Southgate quotes
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
- G M Trevelyan quotes
Villagers do not think village cricket is funny.
- John Arlott quotes
Vinny Jones is as discreet as a scream in a cathedral.
- Frank McGhee quotes
