culture Quotes

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.