Antiquary's Quotes

#1. Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

John Ruskin

#2. I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories - completely terrified but absolutely loved them.

Tom Goodman-Hill

#3. The minute you humiliate people, you've lost them for life.

Gregory Wasson

#4. The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.

Mike Huckabee

#5. Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame.
Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs, vibrating like a guiter string as perspiration covered her entire body, she felt like disappearing into the thin air, maybe to another mind creating world.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#6. I enjoy flirting with death.

Sasha Alsberg

#7. Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person's vision of the future.

Joshua Rogers

#8. God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!

Arthur Guiterman

#9. When I got across, I looked back and saw Tyson giving Grover a piggyback ride (or was it a goatyback ride?).

Rick Riordan

#10. You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!

Gideon Defoe

#11. That's how it's supposed to happen. How it should happen. How it would have happened if I didn't exist - and I shouldn't exist.-Edward Cullen

Stephenie Meyer

#12. There were a lot of fools at that conference - pompous fools - and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out.

Richard Feynman

#13. My point is that things become weird and pointless if you examine them for too long.

Liane Moriarty

#14. A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

Charles Caleb Colton

#15. There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.

Dan Gilroy

#16. Why couldn't she, at least just this once, suddenly find magical powers?

Cecelia Ahern