Fortnight Quotes
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Fortnight Quotes & Sayings
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In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
— Joseph Chamberlain
Sensuality does not understand why everyone else is so disturbed by her. As a young girl, she was often scolded for going barefoot.
— J. Ruth Gendler
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
— J.B. Priestley
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
— Hilaire Belloc
It is not summer, England doesn't have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight's variation here and there.
— Natasha Pulley
Keep your heel, head and standards high.
— Coco Chanel
The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly
perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless. — Evelyn Waugh
perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless. — Evelyn Waugh
The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.
— Joseph Campbell
The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.
— Sholem Aleichem
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
— Henry David Thoreau
The purity of a revolution can last a fortnight. That is why a poet, the revolutionary of the soul, limits himself to the about-turns of the mind.
— Jean Cocteau
O that I were your lover for a month or two, he murmured,
I would make that pretty heart's blood of yours ache in a fortnight. — Helen Simpson
I would make that pretty heart's blood of yours ache in a fortnight. — Helen Simpson
Feel free to scream, whisper, and everything in between. I want to hear it all.
— Kristen Hope Mazzola
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!
— Nevil Shute
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
— Samuel Richardson
Tyrion Lannister knew the maps as well as anyone, but a fortnight on the wild track that passed for the kingsroad up here
— George R R Martin
When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
— Billy Connolly
His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw
— Barbara W. Tuchman
But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another.
— Aleister Crowley
She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.
— Sandra Cisneros
Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
— Samuel Johnson
Some people in England only have their wheelie bins collected once a fortnight. Their suffering is unimaginable.
— Russell Howard
No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
— Ronald Reagan
If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.
— George R R Martin
All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.
— Terry Pratchett
It takes a lot of hard work," he said, "to make something simple,
— Walter Isaacson
You might have written. Every bit of your daily life interests me. I wrote this day fortnight but it was returned. Tampered with.
— Edna O'Brien
In a fortnight Lilith had figured out more about me than anyone had ever cared to know, and I could only hope that she would hold it gently.
— Tabitha McGowan