Quote by James Buchan
To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to

To give money to a woman – and here I must speak as a man – is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites. – James Buchan

Other quotes by James Buchan

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think theyre fine fellows and dont need to explain themselves. – James Buchan

Category:
Money
Read Quote

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. – James Buchan

Category:
Change
Read Quote

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness. – James Buchan

Category:
Business
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Money
category

Brigands demand your money or your life women require both. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Money

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is The X Factor. – Iain Duncan Smith

Category:
Money

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and its a pathological way for a society to run its affairs. – Marianne Williamson

Category:
Money

If we think we have ours and dont owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. – Marian Wright Edelman

Category:
Money

Random Quotes

October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy draughts that bit at exposed hands and faces. – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, “The Lion and the Serpe

Category:
November

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Statistics

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear. – Mitt Romney

Category:
best

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. – Muhammad Ali