"You see, Freddy believes that if a fridge falls off a minivan, you better swerve out of its way. I believe it's the fridge's job to swerve out of mine."

-Francis J. Underwood

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.


"Bernard, I have served eleven governments in the past thirty years. If I'd believed in all their policies, I would have been passionately committed to keeping out of the Common Market and passionately committed to going into it. I'd have been utterly convinced of the rightness of nationalising steel and of denationalising it and renationalising it. And capital punishment? I'd have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent abolitionist. I would've been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite. A grammar school preserver and destroyer, a nationalisation freak and a privatisation maniac, but above all, I would've been a stark-staring raving schizophrenic."

-Sir Humphrey Appleby


"He that would keep a secret must keep it secret that he hath a secret to keep."

-Sir Humphrey Appleby