Anna Leonowens Quotes

#1. Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder.

John Paul Warren

#2. There is compensation in all things.

Anna Leonowens

#3. It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan peasants who grow poppies won't get rich. The money will end up in places like Dubai.

Bruce Sterling

#4. The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

Anna Leonowens

#5. The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

Anna Leonowens

#6. The night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.

Anna Leonowens

#7. I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.

Joseph O'Neill

#8. Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Rabindranath Tagore

#9. Jealousy is one of love's parasites.

Josh Billings

#10. If you were given a book with the story of your life, would you read the end?

Natasha Friend

#11. We are prone to ignore or to condemn that which we do not clearly understand;

Anna Harriette Leonowens

#12. If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?"
"Do I know? [ ... ] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.

Ellis Peters

#13. In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.

Anna Leonowens