Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.

I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.

Canada is free and freedom is its nationality.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.

We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here and one across the sea.

The twentieth century belongs to Canada.

A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)

The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews.

We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient edifice into a ruin.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?

You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.