1666 Quotes

#1. Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.

Kate Williams

#2. When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing - the existing landowners wanted things as they had been.

Norman Foster

#3. Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I was thinking of Margaret near the end of her life, and that was the voice I heard for her.

Danielle Dutton

#4. I had all these sparkles I'd collected and wanted to work in, but when I originally started writing it and it was originally this novel about all these people set in 1666, what I was so interested in was the New Science.

Danielle Dutton

#5. The greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.

Alexandre Dumas

#6. Misdirection is one of my strengths,

Erin Morgenstern

#7. Obsession; when thoughts are held captive and no longer your own.

Donna Lynn Hope

#8. Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

Ermanno Bencivenga

#9. He loved not only her beauty, but that dim soul which he divined behind her suffering eyes. He would intoxicate her with his passion. In the end he would make her forget.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. I think I wanted it too much and you didn't want it enough.

Jay Crownover

#11. Sometimes war is necessary to teach us the value of peace. Sometimes you need to learn the real value of diplomacy in avoiding war. And I'd rather my students learned those lessons on the playground than on the battlefield.

Neil Gaiman

#12. Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Carroll O'Connor

#13. Walking on water is better than drowning.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

Susan Sullivan

#15. With a bassy thump and a smell like burnt sulfur, Shitload farted himself far into the air.

David Wong

#16. When times get tough, I get tougher.

C.M. Stunich