Edward Hall Quotes

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.

Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.

Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

I'm not consumed with political machinations.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two famed seductions, which are a matter of politics, not a matter of love.

Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.

You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

Under every stone lurks a politician

The best laid plans o’ mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley

The worse I do the more popular I get.

Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent

Both sides are so corrupt in Haiti that it doesn’t matter which one wins.

Politics: a Trojan horse race

Every time we have toppled a secular dictator (in the Middle East), it has been replaced by a chaos and the rise of radical Islam…. Intervention has unintended consequences

I don't play politics.