Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Brown

A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'

John McNaughton

You'll find yourself thinking about Henry and saying, 'He's sort of like me.'

Toby Shook

Henry Wade did inspire a lot of young lawyers.

George Piggins

Henry is the face. I support him 100 per cent. I hope people listen to what he's saying rather than playing the man.

Dusty Baker

Henry did what he's supposed to do, get him back on track.

William Shakespeare

But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.

Cynthia Ozick

There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.

David Tennant

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

Bob Phillips

Patrick Henry should come back to see what taxation with representation is like

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Dick Spring

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

Tim Pape

Taxation without representation? No, they're getting taxed, and they're getting represented.

Margaret Thatcher

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

George Will

Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.