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

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

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity. – James Buchan

Category:
History
Read Quote

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency – money – the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. – James Buchan

Category:
Society
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Money
category

There are people who have money and people who are rich. – Coco Chanel

Category:
Money

When an actor has money he doesnt send letters, he sends telegrams. – Anton Chekhov

Category:
Money

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldnt have to advertise them. – Will Rogers

Category:
Money

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasnt just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. – Paul Ryan

Category:
Money

Random Quotes

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us? – Augustus Hare

Category:
God

Its not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free. – William Weld

Category:
Government

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. – Epicurus

Category:
God

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. – Thomas Aquinas

Category:
Philosophy