Christian Baines > Christian's Quotes

“Resentments are like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
― Brenda Wilhelmson, Diary of an Alcoholic Housewife

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
― Henry Thomas Buckle

“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland.”
― Tennessee Williams

“Politicians like to panic. They need activity. It's their substitute for achievement.”
― Sir Humphrey Appleby

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
― Winston Churchill

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde

“My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.”
― Stephen Fry