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“Satire is insult comedy for over-educated people.”

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“Congratulations, by the way," he called after Nash. "On the babies.”

Rohan What The Fuck Nash Hawthorne

Book:The Grandest Game

Source: The Grandest Game

“So much death! What can med do against such reckless hate?”

Rohan The Two Towers Theoden

Author:JRR Tolkien The Two Towers

“And you're no going to see me inherit the title--you'll marry on your deathbed and beget an heir just to spite me," he said in a voice that wasn't far from a whine. "What a wonderful opinion you have of my virility," Rohan replied.”

Book:Ruthless

Source: Ruthless

“You can dress a pig up in satin and lace and its still a pig." Francis smiled hazily. "Are you calling my intended a pig, Charles?" Charles raised a dark eyebrow. "Intended what, Francis? You surely cant be having respectable inclinations towards this girl. The bullet hit your arm, not your head.”

Book:Ruthless

Source: Ruthless

“..for long years we healers have only sought to patch the rents made by the men of swords. Though we should still have enough to do without them: the world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. ' 'It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two, Master Warden,' answered Éowyn.”

War Girl Power Eowyn Rohan Shield Maiden

Book:The Return of the King

Source: The Return of the King

“That, I guess, is the language of the Rohirrim," the Elf commented, "for it is like to this land itself; rich and rolling in part, and else hard and stern as the mountains. But I cannot guess what it means, save that it is laden with the sadness of mortal men.”

Language Mortality Rohan

Book:The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Source: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

“I love your spirit, your intelligence, your kindness, I love all of you. I want you as my equal, my friend, my partner. I want to help carry your burdens, and I want you to help carry mine. I can't even begin to describe what I feel for you, I love you so much,”

Book:The Agency for Scandal

Source: The Agency for Scandal

“The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; the liberal Tories and the radical Whigs fought him as the Betrayer of the Revolution and the Enslaver of Europe; they were all agreed in fighting him, and his notion that their disagreement signified national disunion was mere wishful thinking. All dictators since his time have fallen into the same trap: themselves blind to the values of liberty, they cannot conceive that people who disagree on its meaning can nevertheless unite in upholding their freedoms against patent despotism.”

Liberty Despotism Napoleon Napoleonic Wars Tories Whigs

Book:The Age of Napoleon

Source: The Age of Napoleon

“...mere tabloid journalists, obliged to choose between the word of a Tory MP and that of a common prostitue, have been far too stupid to see that you can put your mortgage on the latter being true.”

Author:william donaldson

“I read recently that 60% of all drugs on the black-market had been put there by the police. No sooner are drugs seized, it seems, than they are recycled onto the streets by the arresting officers! I know our Leader, Mrs Thatcher, is in favour of private enterprise, but this is the free market gone mad!...Yours for the Market Economy Within Reasonable Limits!”

Capitalism Tories

Author:william donaldson