William Shakespeare  - Quotes

 All that glitters is not gold. Gilded tombs do worms enfold. 

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William Shakespeare  - Quotes

 My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. 

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The Departed  - Quotes

 Oliver Queenan:
All cell phone signals are under surveillance, due to the courtesy of our Federal friends over there.
Ellerby:
Patriot Act, Patriot Act! I love it, I love it, I love it!
 



Alec Baldwin  - Quotes

 [American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over. 

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Enigma  - Quotes

 Tom Jericho:
It weighs twenty-six pounds, battery included, and goes anywhere. The Enigma machine - the Germans have thousands of them.
Hammerbeck:
What's it do?
Tom Jericho:
It turns plain-text messages into gobbledygook. Then the gobbledygook is transmitted in Morse. At the other end is another Enigma machine, which translates the message back to the original text.
Hammerbeck:
And you have one of your own.
Logie:
Uh, courtesy of the Polish Cipher Bureau.
Hammerbeck:
So what's the problem?
Tom Jericho:
The problem? The problem is the machine has a hundred and fifty million, million, million ways of doing it, according to how you set these three rotors, and how you connect these plugs. Press the same key any number of times, it'll always come out different.
Hammerbeck:
And that's Shark?
Tom Jericho:
No. No, no, no, this is the one we can break. Shark is enciphered on a special Enigma machine with a fourth rotor, designed especially for U-Boats - which gives it about four thousand million, BILLION starting positions. And, uh, we've never seen one.
Hammerbeck:
Holy shit...
 

Much Ado About Nothing  - Quotes

 Beatrice:
I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick. Nobody marks you.
Benedick:
What, my dear Lady Disdain. Are you yet living?
Beatrice:
Is't possible Disdain should die whilst she hath such meet food to feed it as Signor Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to Disdain when you come in her presence.
 

Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again  - Quotes

 Jeff Foxworthy:
You ever seen a car sitting at a red light, and there's like, five guys in it? And all of a sudden all four windows go down and there's four guys hangin' out the car just cussing like crazy? And there's one guy sitting in the middle in the back just laughing. You know why he's laughing, he's cashed in his courtesy sniff! And the only thing that could make him happier was had he been driving and in control of the window lock.
 

Lisa Kleypas  - Quotes

 And Poppy, remember that someday you will meet a frog who will turn into a handsome prince. 

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The Shawshank Redemption  - Quotes

 Red:
[narrating] And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison.
Captain Hadley:
Drink up while it's cold, ladies.
Red:
[narrating] The colossal prick even managed to sound magnanimous.
 

The New Twenty  - Quotes

 Julie Kim:
What's wrong?
Felix Canavan:
Just a touch of existential malaise courtesy of late capitalism. You know, the usual.
 

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Charles Dickens  - Quotes

 Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:



Ever been kicked?

Might have been.

Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs?

Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.
 

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George Eliot  - Quotes

 The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same. 

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Quiz Show  - Quotes

 Dick Goodwin:
You're to receive the questions in advance, and I'm to thank you for the courtesy of attending this hearing.
Martin Rittenhome:
Mercy. What a grueling line of inquiry.
Dick Goodwin:
Must have a familiar ring - the questions in advance.
 

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Glengarry Glen Ross  - Quotes

 Ricky Roma:
Who said 'fuck the machine'?
Dave Moss:
Fuck the machine? Fuck the machine? FUCK THE MACHINE! What is this, courtesy class?
 

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Julie Murphy  - Quotes

 A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls. 

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American Splendor  - Quotes

 
[During Harvey & Joyce's first date]
Joyce Brabner:
I think we should skip the whole courtship thing and just get married.
 

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Anne Rice  - Quotes

 You're beautiful to me because you're human. Your frailty. Your short years. Your heart. All that suddenly seems more precious than anything I've ever known. 

Charles Dickens  - Quotes

 That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off.



The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay
 

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Christopher Moore  - Quotes

 They were both lean and blond and weather-beaten, and one evening, as they were portaging gear from their respective Zodiacs, Libby unzipped her survival suit and tied the sleeves around her waist so she could move more freely. Nate said,  

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Susan Griffin  - Quotes

 Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist. 

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John Marshall  - Quotes

 The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him. 

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Norman Mailer  - Quotes

 You don't know a woman until you've met her in court. 

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Veronica Franco  - Quotes

 So sweet and delicious do I become,

when I am in bed with a man

who, I sense, loves and enjoys me,

that the pleasure I bring excels all delight,

so the knot of love, however tight

it seemed before, is tied tighter still.
 

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Henry David Thoreau  - Quotes

 A man can suffocate on courtesy. 

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Christopher Buckley  - Quotes

 Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.  

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Anne Rivers Siddons  - Quotes

 All over Atlanta that fall, in the blue twilights, girls came clicking home from their jobs in their clunky heels and miniskirts and opened their apartment windows to the winesap air, and got out ice cubes, and put on Petula Clark singing 'Downtown', and sat down to wait.



Soon the young men would come, drifting out of their bachelor apartments in Bermuda shorts and Topsiders, carrying beers and gin and tonics, looking for a refill and a a date and the keeping of promises that hung in the bronze air like fruit on the eve of ripeness.
 

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