Patrick O'Brian quote: "My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland."

The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
SAINT PATRICK

I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
SAINT PATRICK

He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK

I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK

I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK

The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK

Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK

I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK

I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK

I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK

It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
SAINT PATRICK

Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H...
SAINT PATRICK

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h...
SAINT PATRICK

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ...
SAINT PATRICK

The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
SAINT PATRICK

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
PATRICK HENRY

For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that ...
PATRICK LENCIONI

Teamwork is a strategic decision.
PATRICK LENCIONI

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to ...
PATRICK SWAYZE

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sen...
PATRICK LENCIONI

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor...
PATRICK HENRY

Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general...
PATRICK HENRY

Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
PATRICK HENRY

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which...
PATRICK HENRY

Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never ...
PATRICK HENRY

The great object is that every man be armed.
PATRICK HENRY

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one whic...
PATRICK HENRY

Fear is the passion of slaves.
PATRICK HENRY

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I ...
PATRICK HENRY

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow...
PATRICK HENRY

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among...
PATRICK HENRY

If this be treason, make the most of it!
PATRICK HENRY

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
PATRICK HENRY

There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. ...
PATRICK LEAHY

We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one i...
PATRICK LEAHY

Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America&#...
PATRICK LEAHY

I'm a gun owner.
PATRICK LEAHY

Judiciary is where my passion is.
PATRICK LEAHY

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
PATRICK LEAHY

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been sug...
PATRICK LEAHY

A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one stan...
PATRICK LEAHY

Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why thin...
PATRICK LEAHY

Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce...
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX

I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative...
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX

David James Elliott and I keep in touch via phone.
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX

Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge...
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX

Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and th...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from ...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damag...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected wor...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
PATRICK KAVANAGH

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figur...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public iss...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
PATRICK KAVANAGH

A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and tal...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesti...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
PATRICK KAVANAGH

I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casu...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is ...
PATRICK KAVANAGH

I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.
PATRICK KANE

If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed.
PATRICK KANE

I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get...
PATRICK KANE

It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things l...
PATRICK KANE

I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from ...
PATRICK KANE

When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the ...
PATRICK KANE

If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, p...
PATRICK KANE

We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience.
PATRICK KANE

I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about wha...
PATRICK KANE

Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and gettin...
PATRICK KANE

I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
PATRICK KANE

There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players.
PATRICK KANE

I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
PATRICK KANE

I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.
PATRICK KANE

I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That's not to say that I won't pass i...
PATRICK KANE

The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the othe...
PATRICK KANE

I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and h...
PATRICK KANE

Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not li...
PATRICK KANE

I love to score goals, and I love to plan my celebrations.
PATRICK KANE

I don't want to be satisfied with where I'm at or happy about what I've done. I want to ...
PATRICK KANE

Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you alway...
PATRICK KANE

Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
PATRICK KANE

My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans a...
PATRICK KANE

It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
PATRICK KANE

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic ...
PATRICK GEDDES

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant i...
PATRICK GEDDES

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
PATRICK GEDDES

I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul...
PATRICK FUGIT

Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks d...
PATRICK FUGIT

There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of Am...
PATRICK FUGIT

If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're craz...
PATRICK FUGIT

It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like...
PATRICK FUGIT

The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: K...
PATRICK FUGIT

One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. B...
PATRICK FUGIT

I'm not a very fast-paced person.
PATRICK FUGIT

I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
PATRICK FUGIT

I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
PATRICK FISCHLER

I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
PATRICK FISCHLER

'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought th...
PATRICK FISCHLER

I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
PATRICK FISCHLER

I do a lot of shows I've actually never seen, and I hadn't seen 'Castle' or 'Sca...
PATRICK FISCHLER

I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It...
PATRICK FISCHLER

Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It st...
PATRICK EWING

New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstand...
PATRICK EWING

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
PATRICK EWING

I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to ...
PATRICK EWING

This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year c...
PATRICK EWING

Most of the fans will still be Knick fans.
PATRICK EWING

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely o...
PATRICK EWING

Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
PATRICK EWING

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity...
PATRICK EWING

When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I...
PATRICK EWING

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I&...
PATRICK EWING

Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.
PATRICK EWING

Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Sea...
PATRICK EWING

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
PATRICK EWING

Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
PATRICK EWING

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me an...
PATRICK EWING

If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eigh...
PATRICK EWING

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
PATRICK EWING

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the sma...
PATRICK EWING

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
PATRICK EWING

I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.
PATRICK DUFFY

I quit it because at the end of seven years in an ensemble show with one leader, I thought: 'I w...
PATRICK DUFFY

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an archite...
PATRICK DUFFY

Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about dr...
PATRICK DUFFY

It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which ...
PATRICK DUFFY

I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reaso...
PATRICK DUFFY

I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's ...
PATRICK DUFFY

I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started ...
PATRICK DUFFY

I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. A...
PATRICK DUFFY

It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forc...
PATRICK DUFFY

I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
PATRICK DUFFY

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
PATRICK DUFFY

There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you ma...
PATRICK DUFFY

The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end th...
PATRICK DUFFY

I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I o...
PATRICK DUFFY

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness ...
PATRICK DUFFY

Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but...
PATRICK DUFFY

There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.
PATRICK DUFFY

Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am...
PATRICK DUFFY

The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each pro...
PATRICK DEWITT

Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family me...
PATRICK DEWITT

I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m...
PATRICK DEWITT

A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the wo...
PATRICK DEWITT

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make...
PATRICK DEWITT

I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised...
PATRICK DEWITT

The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w...
PATRICK DEWITT

I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t...
PATRICK DEWITT

If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
PATRICK DEWITT

Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr...
PATRICK DEWITT

By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ...
PATRICK DEWITT

The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it...
PATRICK DEWITT

Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t...
PATRICK DEWITT

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi...
PATRICK DEWITT

I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&...
PATRICK DEWITT

I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
PATRICK DEWITT

Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it...
PATRICK DEWITT

More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don...
PATRICK DEWITT

All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const...
PATRICK DEWITT

Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it ...
PATRICK DEWITT

Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of cra...
PATRICK DEWITT

I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting...
PATRICK DEWITT

As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don&#...
PATRICK DEWITT

I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ...
PATRICK DEWITT

I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
PATRICK DEWITT

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the sta...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pr...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
PATRICK DEMPSEY

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it wi...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
PATRICK DEMPSEY

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you c...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comed...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
PATRICK DEMPSEY

I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to rid...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
PATRICK DEMPSEY

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
PATRICK DEMPSEY

I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDre...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as o...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect l...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it w...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
PATRICK DEMPSEY

When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER

I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that b...
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER

Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER

Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER

I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
PATRICK DEMARCHELIER

My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.

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Patrick O'Brian

My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.

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