Quotes of the Week - July 15, 2008:
"You are my lord, you're my darling, you're my orgy, my charming
prince." -- Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's tribute to husband, Nicholas
Sarkozy, president of France.
"Barack, he's talking down to black people. I want to cut his nuts
off." -- Jesse Jackson, US Democrat and civil rights activist,
about his party's presidential candidate Barack Obama.
"Many things that happened in the jungle we have to leave in the
jungle." -- Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt, refuses to discuss
certain details about her six years of captivity in jungles of Colombia.
"Europe is a family of 27 nations, we can't leave anyone behind."
-- Nicolas Sarkozy, French President, urging European Parliament to
speed negotiations over Lisbon Treaty.
Authors:
Shakespeare - Henry VIII Quotes, Famous Henry VIII Quotations
I
charge thee, fling away ambition:
By that sin fell the angels. Henry VIII, 3. 2
Love
thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;
Corruption wins not more than honesty. Henry VIII, 3. 2
Had
I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies. Henry VIII, 3. 2
An
old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye:
Give him a little earth for charity! Henry VIII, 4. 2
He
gave his honours to the world again,
His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. Henry VIII, 4. 2
So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! Henry VIII, 4. 2
He
was a man
Of an unbounded stomach. Henry VIII, 4. 2
His
promises were, as he then was, mighty;
But his performance, as he is now, nothing. Henry VIII, 4. 2
Men's
evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water. Henry
VIII, 4. 2
He
was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading;
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. Henry
VIII, 4. 2