Quotes from Martina Cole

She shakes the blues off then she tries her luck Makes a little bet, hopes her horse comes up Pickin' pockets for some easy money 'Cause she blew the goddamn lot on the National Lottery Alabama 3, 'Mansion On The Hill' Album: La Peste, 2000

didn't feel the need to broadcast it to the fucking nation.

Why did you have to lose something before you could fully appreciate it?

We all have to live by our own lights, love, do what we can.

The future was eventually all about what you had really done, not what you wished you had done.

regrets were a waste of time.

My old mum always said, if brains was gunpowder he couldn't blow his fucking eyebrows off.

people who feel she ain't

also conducted. They were luxurious, and they

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge Ezekiel 18:2

She is in every flower you see and every butterfly and in the clouds and in the trees.

Be serene. It is not what happens to you, it is how you deal with it.

How they had the nerve to sanction other countries about their penal laws when they treated their own as guilty before there was even a trial, he did not know. Innocent till proven guilty?

All his support seemed to have achieved was to allow his wife to become more and more reclusive. He

Show me the company you keep and I'll tell you what you are." Never was a truer word said!

Everyone knew women were far more ruthless than men. Men got mad and women got even, there was a big difference.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat. - Arthur Hugh Clough 'The Latest Decalogue' Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris. It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt. - Tacitus Aricola,

She had always been the voice of reason, had been the one who smoothed over quarrels and made sure that they remembered they were family. Stopped the fights before they began and reminded them that, at the end of the day, each other was all that any of them really had. As close as they were, they had all fallen out big time over the years. She had been the voice of reason.

She had held them together with the sheer force of her will and her overpowering love. What would happen to them all now? Who would keep them all together, make sure they didn't fall apart, didn't rake up the past and cause murders?

Imelda believed in God because she felt that there had to be something else, something after all this, and also because anyone who was still being worshipped and adored after all that time had to have something going for them.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.' - Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 1853-1917 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. - Revelation, 22:15

Youth, as Oscar Wilde had once said, was wasted on the young!

He had no intention of fighting for a country that he saw as holding men down and offering them nothing except back-breaking work. He had said as much to his commanding officer. He had also robbed the army stores blind; the black market was still thriving at the time, and he had used that for his own ends.

Catholic guilt was the most destructive sort of guilt because the person that it concerned had no real concept of it. They didn't even realise that it existed. Catholic guilt was something that grew alongside the person, alongside their personality and, in many ways, it did them some good. They felt the need to help the less fortunate, and they felt the urge to make their children better than they were.