Blue Stockings Quotes

#1. What are blue-stockings?' asked Tommy.
Naturally you don't know,' replied the other. 'If you did, you would sympathize more with Bluebeard. They were ladies who were always reading books. They even read them aloud.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.

Umar

#4. An attractive man of the dark, messy hair variety came around a corner and stopped short. He stared intently at her, his dark blue eyes mesmerizing. "Can I help you?" He slid behind the desk and

Cleo Peitsche

#5. Augustine said he wept more for the death of Dido than he did for the death of his own saviour. What about Book Four, the best book of the best poem of the best poet?

Boris Johnson

#6. So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.

Rick Riordan

#7. I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

Christina Aguilera

#8. It may be inevitable that mankind has to suffer so that it may gain experience to transcend and transform her collective consciousness.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Holy shit! Where's a cell phone camera when you need one?

Simone Elkeles

#10. The Blue Hose of Presbyterian College and the Ichabods of Washburn University are perhaps the most amusing nicknames in collegiate sports; Blue Hose refers to stockings, not to melancholy courtesans.

Gregg Easterbrook

#11. It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

Mencius

#12. The funny thing about the mind is that if you ask a question and then listen quietly, the answer usually appears.

Yongey Mingyur

#13. Prayer is a sacred act for all seasons.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. I've never gone back to the stacks after my book's expiration at the front of the store. Not because I'm above it or anything, but I'd be mortified if someone caught me looking for my own book.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#15. Red-heeled shoes and silk stockings clocked in black. Gray satin breeches with silver knee buckles. Snowy linen, with Brussels lace six inches deep at cuff and jabot. The coat, a masterpiece in heavy gray with blue satin cuffs and crested silver buttons, hung behind the door, awaiting its turn.

Diana Gabaldon

#16. to know how tall a tree is
I must fall from the top;
that is,
desire burns.

Robin Blaser

#17. Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.

Homer