Checkering Cradle Quotes

#1. Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.
Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

Oscar Wilde

#2. God raises the level of the impossible.

Corrie Ten Boom

#3. Failure and greatness are oddly linked.

Kipp Bodnar

#4. An incompetent officer can never understand that to apply the law without understanding its spirit is to invite opposition.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. These laid the world away; poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene,
That men call age; and those who would have been,
Their sons, they gave, their immortality.

Rupert Brooke

#6. The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

Henry Fielding

#7. But that age; remember that age? They're not the same. They don't put things together. That's why half of what they do looks full-on certifiable, to you or me or any sane adult. Things don't make sense, when you're that age; you don't make sense. You stop expecting to.

Tana French

#8. I'm a big fan of regular school and regular education. I just learn better in a classroom where I can talk to other students. I want to go to prom and dances and have that social aspect.

Nick Robinson

#9. Forgive me if I don't shake hands.

Doc Holliday

#10. It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

Sal Albanese