Quotes of the week

Quotes of the week: 

‘It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious’ Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, quoted on the Browser

‘Death is what gets poets up in the morning’ American poet Billy Collins, quoted in the Guardian 

‘What’s the point in having a conscience if you never use it?’ Gina Miller in The Times

‘Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers’ Voltaire, quoted on Forbes

‘Behind every failure is an opportunity someone wishes they missed’ Lily Tonkin, quoted on people.com

‘What’s the different between a non-executive director and a supermarket trolley? You can get more wine into a director’ Grocer Sir Ken Morrison, quoted in the Daily Telegraph

‘Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended’ Zsa Zsa Gabor, quoted on BBC news online

*‘Jealousy is all the fun you think they had’ Novelist Erica Jong, quoted in The Times*

‘A picture is something that requires as much trickery, malice and vice as the perpetration of a crime’ Degas, quoted in The Guardian 

*my personal favourite (all quotes from the Week Magazine)