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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. — W. Somerset Maugham

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? — Robin Hobb

Me and my harp was a love affair from way back. — Little Walter

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest. — Dean Acheson

I needed experience. How Could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? — Sylvia Plath

Don't fall...enjoy your life affair! — Amina El Karamany

I will piss on deadlines. I will forget I am married. I will do nothing but read, read, read when it's a Book Affair. — Lainey

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Loneliness is such a sad affair. — Karen Carpenter

I'm pretty sure my love affair with science-fiction started with ET. — Shiloh Walker

I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself. — Lisa Cholodenko

Marriage ... is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) — Joseph Campbell

If you want sex, have an affair. If you want a relationship, buy a dog. — Julie Burchill

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs. — Maya Angelou

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours. — Ernest Bevin

And most of all...I learned that even in the darkest of nights, the stars will always shine. ~ Lynn — Ava Harrison

It's simply not true that Donald Trump has no experience in foreign affairs. Hell, two of his foreign affairs resulted in marriages! — Michael R. Burch

Everyday life continues during a love affair. — Caleb Crain

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail. — Fran Lebowitz

Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair ... — Varg Vikernes

God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous. — Vincent De Paul

Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it. — Ned Rorem

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate. — Croesus

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful. — Mignon McLaughlin

Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it. — W. Somerset Maugham

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs. — Pliny The Elder

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock. — Edward Abbey

No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own, — Jiang Zemin

We were hooked when we woke.
We had arms for each other.
But I yearned to resume
My dreams of another. — Roman Payne

Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril. — Gary Busey

Love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end. — Graham Greene

What a day-to-day affair life is. — Jules Laforgue

The way I figure it when a man's in love with a girl, He's got a right to ask her to marry him. Any girl, Anybody's girl — Robert Mitchum

I haven't ever attended a real high-up society affair, said Mrs. — Walter R. Brooks

Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair? — Cole Porter

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair. — Dorothy Day

It is your choice," he said, so close to me that our lips were almost touching. "Either do what I say - or get another job. — Robert Thier

I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs. — Mae West

I mean, you never hear someone say they wanted to have an affair but they couldn't find the time, do you? — Rachel Cusk

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly. — Carol Vorderman

Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November. — James McGreevey

So, if there are any couples here this evening having a secret extramarital affair, I encourage you to breed. — Alison Larkin

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with. — Jason Blum

Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs. — Rick Perry

It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair. — Gloria Stuart

He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands. — Umar

My dear Pierre, the affair is clear, you'll have your head chopped off. Let that be a lesson to you! — Honore De Balzac

Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors. — Honore De Balzac

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it. — Mignon McLaughlin

Dance music tends to be a solitary affair. — Peter Hook

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.] — Plautus

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. — Francesco Guicciardini

Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers. — Julio Olalla

The suppression of the State cannot be a languid affair; it must be the task of the Revolution to finish with the State. — Noam Chomsky

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted. — Honore De Balzac

Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs. — Giuseppe Verdi

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for. — Lucy Grealy

I pretend I'm fighting to live in the present but really I'm having an affair with the past every secret moment. — Jillian Lauren

But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"? — Joan Wickersham

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people. — Gelsey Kirkland

Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another. — Nicolas Chamfort

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair. — Leo Tolstoy

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable. — Jeremy Clarkson

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. — George Bernard Shaw

As one gets older, one can get tired. But only when your heart gives out does your strength give in. For me, all this is an affair of the heart. — Joe Bastardi

It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense. — Jane Wagner

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman. — Mary Brave Bird

For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move — Robert Davis Stevenson

It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present. — John Adams

Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution. — Stephen Spender

We've been caught in a wildly passionate, completely one-sided affair since freshman year. — Hannah Harrington

Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office. — Dave Barry

A poet's function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others. — Ryan Holiday

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course. — Nancy Mitford

Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant. — Hanya Yanagihara

My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it ... there'll be nothing speculative about my wedding. — Bipasha Basu

I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his. — Anne Ellis

Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire. — Robert McCammon

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process. — John Dewey

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated. — Ellen Glasgow

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever. — Andy Warhol

I will dream if I want to, I said, and my death is my own affair. — Neil Gaiman

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. — E. M. Forster

For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country. — Julie Delpy

Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate. — Seneca.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion. — Alice Duer Miller

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same. — Betty White

There is no justification for having an affair. — Shanola Hampton

Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs
putting in his oar, so to speak
with some pat word or sentence. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

communication is a two-party affair which aims at passing on or receiving a specific piece of information. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated. — Voltaire

Henry," she said primly, "I'll have an affair with you but I won't marry you. — Harper Lee

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise. — Herbert Hoover

I grew up in D.C. but always had a love affair with New York. I did 'Central Park West,' 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order.' — Darren Star

My decision (for Christ) was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair. I was decided upon. — C.S. Lewis

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs. — Owen Feltham

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. — Theodore Roosevelt

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage. — Erica Jong