Dexter Otter

“Alistair smiled. 'How long this war has been.'

'I'll say. One hardly remembers how we lived before. Lightly - not worrying much.'

'Do you suppose we shall ever live that way again?'

'Oh, who knows? Given sufficient champagne and ether.'

'Maybe if we stay drunk to the end of our days we shan't remember.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

“President Bush,’ he said, ‘and all the people around him, will act according to their upbringing. Which is based on the Judeo-Christian moral philosophy supported by the Graeco-Roman concept of logic.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Fist of God

“You realize assuming can often lead to getting into trouble.”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

“We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece