Quotes for the Depression Forums 10-11

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

I felt like poisoning a monk.
-- Umberto Eco, on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
-- Sir Arnold Bax, Farewell my Youth (1943)

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil, 1925