Baroness Orczy Quotes

#1. Music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.

Baroness Orczy

#2. Since then her life had been peaceful and happy. She had allowed herself to be worshipped by that strangely captivating lover of hers, whose passionately willful temperament, tempered by that persistent, sunny gaiety, she had up to now only half understood.

Emmuska Orczy

#3. I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband is a doctor, just like I won't stop standing up for veterans because my father served in World War II.

Shelley Berkley

#4. He made her laugh always made her taste a strange and exquisite bliss when he held her in his arms.

Emmuska Orczy

#5. There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

Baroness Orczy

#6. To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.

Baroness Orczy

#7. The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.

Jason Calacanis

#8. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay.

Baroness Orczy

#9. Coconut oil has always been my favorite. Any dry spots I have I'll put coconut oil on them because it's a natural ingredient and it works better than anything.

Shay Mitchell

#10. I liked the push and pull of that, between the outer political world and the inner personal lives of the characters. It's also real life ... Many of us are keenly aware of world events, but break your nose and I bet that's the main thing you'd be focused on.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#11. Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Julia Cameron

#12. She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.

Emmuska Orczy

#13. Fate is usually swift when she deals a blow.

Baroness Orczy

#14. Put me down easy, Janie, Ah'm a cracked plate.

Zora Neale Hurston

#15. They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy

#16. Our voices, wrapping around each other's, entwining, and then tugging free, in the pitch black.

Rick Yancey

#17. Hers was the perfect love that dwells on the other's happiness, and not on its own. She knew that, though for the time being he would find bliss and oblivion in her arms, he would soon repine in inactivity whilst others fought for that which he held sublime.

Emmuska Orczy

#18. Tis only in the future you can prove your true worth.

Emmuska Orczy

#19. If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."

Thomas Merton

#20. And among them all Taurus Antinor, praefect of Rome, with his ruddy hair and bronzed skin, his massive frame clad in gorgeously embroidered tunic.

Orczy Emmuska Baroness

#21. Even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end ...

Baroness Orczy

#22. I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Charlotte Bronte