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I like to keep things simple. It's really about the wine, food and the beach view. Nothing can beat that.
— Emeril Lagasse
Women have their uses for historians.
— Ronald Syme
Next time I ran into a terrorist I was going to put a death squeeze on his balls, stab him in the eye with a pencil, and then kill him.
— Laurel Ulen Curtis
Pearls are congealed oyster spit.
— Margaret Atwood
Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.
— G.K. Chesterton
Syme had ceased to exist: he had never existed.
— George Orwell
When the President asks you to do something, you'd be surprised how keen you are to oblige, Syme said.
— Matthew Reilly
A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
— Joseph Joubert
The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.
— Ronald Syme
Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.
— Ronald Syme
Is," said Syme serenely, "the truth is I am a Sabbatarian.
— G.K. Chesterton
You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.
— Yogi Berra
Perfectly," replied Syme; "always be comic in a tragedy.
— G.K. Chesterton
Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
— G.K. Chesterton