Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
THE FASCINATION OF SHOOTING AS A SPORT DEPENDS ALMOST WHOLLY ON WHETHER YOU ARE AT THE RIGHT OR WRONG END OF THE GUN.
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
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GOLF IS A DAY SPENT IN A ROUND OF STRENUOUS IDLENESS.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting.
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It is foolish and quite unfitting for an educated man to spend all his time on acquiring bulging muscles, a thick neck and mighty thighs. The large amounts they are compelled to eat make them dull-witted.
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I MUST COMPLAIN THE CARDS ARE ILL SHUFFLED, TILL I HAVE A GOOD HAND.
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Deer-stalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
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SUDDEN SUCCESS IN GOLF IS LIKE THE SUDDEN ACQUISITION OF WEALTH. IT IS APT TO UNSETTLE AND DETERIORATE THE CHARACTER.
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RUGBY IS A GOOD OCCASION FOR KEEPING 30 BULLIES FAR FROM THE CENTRE OF THE CITY.
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If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.
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There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
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GOLF IS A GAME IN WHICH YOU CAN CLAIM THE PRIVILEGES OF AGE AND RETAIN THE PLAYTHINGS OF CHILDHOOD.
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ANY DAMN FOOL CAN BEG UP SOME KIND OF JOB; IT TAKES A WISE MAN TO MAKE IT WITHOUT WORKING.
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HOW LITTLE OUR CAREERS EXPRESS WHAT LIES IN US, AND YET HOW MUCH TIME THEY TAKE UP. IT’S SAD, REALLY.
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A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.
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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
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I think it could be plausibly argued that changes of diet are more important than changes of dynasty or… religion.
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THERE ARE ONLY TEN MINUTES IN THE LIFE OF A PEAR WHEN IT IS PERFECT TO EAT.
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Mayonnaise… one of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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NO MAN IS LONELY WHILE EATING SPAGHETTI: IT REQUIRES SO MUCH ATTENTION.
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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TO EAT WELL IN ENGLAND YOU SHOULD HAVE BREAKFAST THREE TIMES A DAY.
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THERE IS ONE THING MORE EXASPERATING THAN A WIFE WHO CAN COOK AND WON’T, AND THAT’S A WIFE WHO CAN’T COOK AND WILL.
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ONE CANNOT THINK WELL, LOVE WELL, SLEEP WELL, IF ONE HAS NOT DINED WELL.
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Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.
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A TAVERN IS A PLACE WHERE MADNESS IS SOLD BY THE BOTTLE.
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No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness – or so good as drink.
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After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.
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GOOD APPLE PIES ARE A CONSIDERABLE PART OF OUR DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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FASHION IS GENTILITY RUNNING AWAY FROM VULGARITY, AND AFRAID OF BEING OVERTAKEN BY IT.
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It’s wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
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Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
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FASHION IS WHAT YOU ADOPT WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
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Vain trifles as they seem, clothes… change our view of the world and the world’s view of us.
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THERE IS ONE OTHER REASON FOR DRESSING WELL… NAMELY, THAT DOGS RESPECT IT, AND WILL NOT ATTACK YOU IN GOOD CLOTHES.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
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A fine coat is a livery, when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.
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CHUMPS ALWAYS MAKE THE BEST HUSBANDS… ALL THE UNHAPPY MARRIAGES COME FROM THE HUSBANDS HAVING BRAINS.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they did not they would be married too.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
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Wishing each other, not divorced, but dead; They lived respectably as man and wife.
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IF A WOMAN DOUBTS AS TO WHETHER SHE SHOULD ACCEPT A MAN OR NOT, SHE CERTAINLY OUGHT TO REFUSE HIM.
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