Cuirass Quotes

#1. It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

Gregory Maguire

#2. Malcolm looked like the perfect battlefield commander, except for the fact that he'd forgotten his pants. His red briefs made quite a statement with his sword and leather cuirass.

Rick Riordan

#3. Errors make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic;

Victor Hugo

#4. A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.

Gustave Flaubert

#5. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see.

Mother Teresa

#6. Never at my best when at my best behaviour.

Alan Bennett

#7. A man is but an ass
Who fights in a cuirass

W.S. Gilbert

#8. The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

George Orwell

#9. Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

Abraham Lincoln

#10. In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.

Winifred Gallagher

#11. Mocking someone else to make us seem deep or intelligent only proves the exact opposite.

Kasie West

#12. Falling in love is a kind of wonder.

Lailah Gifty Akita