A Countess Below Stairs Quotes

#1. The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then:
"Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!

Eva Ibbotson

#2. Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

David Suzuki

#3. Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

Magnus Hirschfeld

#4. She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose] ...

Eva Ibbotson

#5. It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

Katrina Bowden

#6. A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

Emily Dickinson

#7. We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.

Holly Black

#9. If a man has any genuine talent he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

G.H. Hardy

#10. Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

Alan Cohen

#11. You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.

John Romero