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'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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