Previously in favourite quotations

All the misfortunes of men derive from one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly in a room - Blaise Pascal

In Trinidad it isn’t polite to look down on a man because you know he handles public funds unwisely. As soon as he is exposed the poor man becomes ridiculous enough, a subject for calypso - VS Naipaul

We all don't know a lot of things - Alice Bell

I quote others only to better express myself - Montaigne

There is an old legend that the C19th is to be the ‘century of woman’ - Florence Nightingale

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves - Bruce Grocott


I think with my hands as I type. - Melanie Reid