Oliver Lloyd

“I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief.

"And you so intelligent!"
"Excuse me?" said tom
"Knowing those things are going to kill you" she said "and still you do it."
"How differently I might behave" Tom said, "if immortality were an option”
― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

“The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.”
― Ben Elton, Blast from the Past

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
― Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]