Quotes of the Week - June 17, 2008:
"I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric.
Phrases such as 'bring them on' or 'dead of alive' indicated to people
that I was, you know, not a man of peace." -- US President George
W Bush regrets being so hawkish over Iraq.
"The nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the court rules foreign
terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in US
courts.
"He didn't like the nose" -- Courtroom sketch artist Janet
Hamlin on the response of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, after he saw a sketch of himself.
Authors:
Shakespeare - Twelfth Night Quotes, Famous Quotations
Then
let thy love be younger than thyself,
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. Twelfth Night, 2. 4
The
spinsters and the knitters in the sun. Twelfth Night, 2. 4
Come
away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid. Twelfth Night, 2. 4
Now,
the melancholy god protect thee; and the tailor make thy doublet
of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal. Twelfth Night, 2. 4
My
father had a daughter loved a man,
As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,
I should your lordship. Twelfth Night, 2. 4
DUKE:
And what's her history?
VIOLA: A blank, my lord. She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? Twelfth Night, 2. 4
I
am all the daughters of my father's house,
And all the brothers too. Twelfth Night, 2. 4
Now
is the woodcock near the gin. Twelfth Night, 2. 5
I
may command where I adore. Twelfth Night, 2. 5
But
be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve
greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Twelfth Night, 2. 5