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 - The Merchant of Venice Quotes, Famous Quotations
My
daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!
Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!
Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter! The Merchant of Venice, 2. 8
Like
the martlet,
Builds in the weather on the outward wall,
Even in the force and road of casualty. The Merchant of Venice, 2. 9
The
portrait of a blinking idiot. The Merchant of Venice, 2. 9
Thus
hath the candle singed the moth.
O, these deliberate fools! The Merchant of Venice, 2. 9
The
Goodwins, I think they call the place; a very dangerous flat,
and fatal, where the carcasses of many a tall ship lie buried,
as they say, if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. The Merchant of Venice, 3. 1
Let
him look to his bond. The Merchant of Venice, 3. 1
Hath
not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses,
affections, passions? The Merchant of Venice, 3. 1
If
you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall
we not revenge? The Merchant of Venice, 3. 1
The
villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but
I will better the instruction. The Merchant of Venice, 3. 1
Makes
a swan-like end,
Fading in music. The Merchant of Venice, 3. 2