The Mouse on Wall Street Quotes

“Something very close to a groan went up from the various members of the Cabinet. They felt themselves trapped. They were getting into an area which some felt was very close to magic and they felt incompetent to deal with the intangibles with which they were surrounded.”
― Leonard Wibberley, The Mouse On Wall Street

“You know, there’s something about women and money,” said the other. “They just don’t understand each other at all. Women think that money is what they want it to be and not what it is.” “Women think that everything is what they want it to be and not what it is,” said the other. “And God bless them for it,” he added fervently. “It’s made a saint out of many a sinner.”
― Leonard Wibberley, The Mouse On Wall Street

“God has always had us in his special care,” mused the Count, viewing the pleasant landscape about from his window. “We have lived with the esteem of the world, with no ambitions upon the territories of our neighbors, with respect for the rights of others, supporting ourselves by our labor and by the fruits of the soil. We are enemies of none and bear ill will toward none.” His eye strayed to where the white and winding road disappeared into the Gap of Pinot toward the border and he added, “Except, of course, the damnable French.”
― Leonard Wibberley, The Mouse On Wall Street