1529 S Quotes

#1. But what do they get by the change? One dog sated with meat is replaced by a hungrier dog who bites nearer the bone. Out goes the man grown fat with honor, and in comes a hungry and a lean man.

Hilary Mantel

#2. I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

Jacqueline Carey

#3. Fantasy is a wise lie.

Deyth Banger

#4. Queen Katherine, whose boys have all died, takes it patiently: that is to say, she suffers.

Hilary Mantel

#5. Loyal customers, they don't just come back, they don't simply recommend you, they insist that their friends do business with you.

Chip R. Bell

#6. I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

Toby Young

#7. 'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

Phil Collins

#8. It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

William Gilmore Simms

#9. For it is a truth, that fortune is inconstant, fickle and mutable.

Hilary Mantel

#10. But right now, he couldn't help but wish the guy looked a little less like he belonged in underwear commercials and a little more like he belonged under a bridge.

Julie Ann Walker

#11. His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.

Hilary Mantel

#12. If ever you are passing my way," said Bilbo, "don't wait to knock! Tea is at four; but any of you are welcome at any time!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. The gift blesses the giver.

Hilary Mantel

#14. I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me.

Elie Wiesel