Quotes of the Week - Nov 10, 2009:
"I wish they caught me six years ago, eight years ago." --
Bernie Madoff, jailed financier and Ponzi schemer, in newly released
interview with representatives of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
"This is all happening because my father didn't buy me a train
set as a kid." --Warren Buffett, investor, on his company's $26
billion purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad - its biggest
deal ever.
"I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears."
-- Rihanna, pop singer, on the unprecedented levels of media attention
she endured after she was assaulted by former boyfriend Chris Brown
in February.
Authors:
Shakespeare - Henry IV Part 1 Quotes, Henry IV Part 1 Quotations
I
had rather be a kitten and cry mew
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. Henry IV, Part 1, 3. 1
That
would set my teeth nothing on edge,
Nothing so much as mincing poetry:
'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag. Henry IV, Part 1, 3. 1
Thy
tongue
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
With ravishing division, to her lute. Henry IV, Part 1, 3. 1
Now
I perceive the devil understands Welsh. Henry IV, Part 1, 3. 1
You
swear like a comfit-maker's wife. Henry IV, Part 1, 3. 1
Swear
me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,
A good mouth-filling oath. Henry IV, Part 1, 3. 1
He
was but as the cuckoo is in June,
Heard, not regarded. Henry IV, Part 1, 3. 2
My
near'st and dearest enemy. Henry IV, Part 1, 3. 2
Company,
villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. Henry
IV, Part 1, 3. 3
Thou
knowest in the state of innocency Adam fell; and what should
poor Jack Falstaff do in the days of villany? Thou seest I have
more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty. Henry
IV, Part 1, 3. 3