Peter Oliver Quotes

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.

Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.

To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.

As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.

The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

We're talking about really vital services to people who are already in a terrible situation and really in need of emergency services - and there aren't alternatives.

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

Right now I don't call it the menopause, I call it men-on-pause.

Look, I promise I’m not psychotic. Eccentric and idiosyncratic, but not psychotic. (Sebastian) I’ll bet the prisons are full of men who have told women that. (Channon)

You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Our collection of men is very antique, they stand in my list thus: A man of sense, a little rusty, a beau a good deal the worse for wearing, a coxcomb extremely shattered, a pretty gentleman very insipid, a baronet very solemn, a squire very fat, a fop much affected, a barrister learned in Coke upon Littleton, but who knows nothing of 'long ways for marry as will', an heir apparent, very awkward; which of these will cast a favourable eye upon me I don't know.

If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm; so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.

As a matter of fact. I think I actually frighten men. I think I scare the hell out of them time after time.