Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.More Alec-Tweedie Alec-Tweedie quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way ...More Alec-Tweedie Alec-Tweedie quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.More Alec-Tweedie Alec-Tweedie quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.More Alec-Tweedie Alec-Tweedie quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no object. According to Pliny, Aristhomacus watched the life of the bee carefully for fifty-eight years, which is just the sort of work a Sicilian of to-day would like.More Alec-Tweedie Alec-Tweedie quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]