Devereux Quotes

#1. Pray, what's the nature of his trouble?" Prudence asked solicitously.
"Oh, cursed bad news, my boy. That old aunt of his from whom he has expectations has rallied, and they say she'll last another ten years. Poor old Devereux, y'know! Must try and raise his spirits.

Georgette Heyer

#2. Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#3. We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#4. Nobody says, hey men should not drink. It's all about women must dress differently, women must walk differently, women must drink differently. Why are we not able to hold men to account for this behavior?

Jon Stewart

#5. If Eve was inferior to Adam because she was created after him, then Adam was inferior to the fishes, because they preceded him.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#6. People share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#7. When I'm doing a drawing, I'm personifying the place that is empty. A place that is unmarked.

Jim Denevan

#8. The most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#9. I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#10. I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

Bear Bryant

#11. She loves the potentiality and the reality of each friend.

Dean Koontz

#12. It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, orthe hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#13. Being a late bloomer gives you a second chance at life.

Rhyme Devereux

#14. Kellie Overbey gave me this play called 'Girl Talk.' I read it and totally fell in love with the characters. I told her she had to let me direct it and put Marcia DeBonis in it.

Carrie Preston

#15. Ryan shook his head. I don't need you to be anything but who you are. In case it wasn't clear, I love who you are. I don't want you to change. I only want you to love me back.

Piper Vaughn

#16. There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life.

Seneca.