Briony Williams Quotes

#1. Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman's tongue? What good was beauty - a mature beauty, but beauty nonetheless - if it cloaked such a viperous soul?

Tad Williams

#2. Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#3. Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

Diane Duane

#4. Briony's ladies-in-waiting kept their distance, as though their mistress had some illness which might spread - and indeed she did, Briony thought, because unhappiness was ambitious.

Tad Williams

#5. I carry lots of guilt.

Rod Stewart

#6. As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.

Terry Pratchett

#7. A lake cannot remain stormy for a long time; an ocean cannot remain calm for a long time; everything and everyone cannot behave different from his own character for a long time!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. You see, that is the secret of history, little Briony - who tells the last story.

Tad Williams

#9. Some get the gravy, some get the gristle.

Joni Mitchell

#10. I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Albert Einstein

#11. Aren't you going to ask me how it went, Kitten?" "You walked in and took the stairs one at a time," I answered. "And you haven't barked at me to get in the car, so I take it Majestic didn't tell you our asses were trophies for hunting season. Am I wrong?

Jeaniene Frost

#12. In other words, our willpower works like a muscle and it weakens throughout the day, since it's used constantly. We all have a limit to our willpower, and once we've reached the limit, it becomes very difficult to focus.

S.J. Scott