(223 quotes found)
“The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.”
Moliere
“Life is a short affair; we should try to make it smooth, and free from strife”
Euripides
“One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
Bertrand Russell
“Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe”
Winston Churchill
“But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things: / Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.”
Bible
“To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.”
Jan Morris
“Desperate affairs require desperate measures.”
Horatio Nelson
“I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
“The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.”
Benjamin Disraeli
