affair quotes

A great partyought nottobe brought down because of a squalid affair between a woman of easy virtue and a proved liar.

- Quintin (McGarel) Hogg, 2nd Viscount Hailsham
  On the Profumo affair, BBC  T V,13  Jun.

Liebe zu sich selbst ist immer derAnfang eines romanhaften Lebens. Self-love is always the beginning of a novelistic affair.

-Thomas Mann
  Joseph und seine Bru«  der ('Joseph and his Brothers').

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories inall literature.

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
  Book review in the NewYorker, 22 Oct.

   Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?

- Cole Porter
  'WhoWants to Be a Millionaire', from the show High Society.

He not only knew a lot about foreign affairs, he was a foreign affair.

-James B(arrett) Reston
  Of former Secretary of State HenryA Kissinger. Deadline.

   I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.

- Laurence Sterne
  A SentimentalJourney,'The Monk, Calais'.

For my part,Itravel not to go anywhere, but to go.Itravel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  Travels with a Donkey,'Cheylard and Luc'.