Aguillon France Quotes

#1. Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.

Charles Dickens

#2. It's good that I should have to come some way to meet you.

Ahdaf Soueif

#3. and illustrations are in the public domain and are free to use, reproduce, or alter as desired. Cover and

Lewis Carroll

#4. If I was on an airplane, the people in coach would know who I am. But no one in first class would know.

Jim Gaffigan

#5. You starting to feel hope yet?" Viola asks, her voice curious.
"No," I say, fuddling my noise. "You?"
Her eyebrows are up but she shakes her head. "No, No."
"But we're going anyway."
"Oh, yeah," Viola says. "Hell or high water."
"It'll probably be both," I say.

Patrick Ness

#6. In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every child deserves, the perfect wife, meet the demands of elderly parents, and still stay sane.

Sara Sheridan

#7. Do not look so surprised, my dear," he said with a grin. "I might be a useless aristocrat, but I'm not a complete simpleton. I can certainly carry on a conversation about which word is the best English translation for what I wish to do to your mouth just now.

Manda Collins

#8. More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Mark Twain

#9. There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

John Donne

#10. Can we ignore what is going on around us, can we disconnect ourselves, our own material situation, our spiritual selves, who we are, can we disconnect that from history and the social context of our lives? The older I get, the more I'm convinced that we cannot, that we are social creatures.

Martin Donovan

#11. Muphry's Law: "If you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written.

Mary Norris

#12. We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

Richard Le Gallienne

#13. The world outside is mad, but it's also beautiful.

Cameron Jace

#14. It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how?

James Westphal