Emilia Pardo Bazan Quotes

#1. Chemistry ... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#2. The government makes use of the clergy as of one arm more, which, however, is now almost powerless through corruption. The Oriental church has no conception of the noble devotion which has honored Catholicism in the lives of Saint Thomas of Canterbury and Cardinal Cisneros. The

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#3. There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.

Nathaniel Smith

#4. The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.

Emilia Pardo Bazan

#5. Spain also suffered an invasion of a foreign race, but she pulled herself together and sustained herself on a war-footing for seven centuries.

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#6. The ladies love me and I love the ladies!

Mickey Rourke

#7. was that he hadn't yet figured out

Louise Penny

#8. I adore art ... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

Giuseppe Verdi

#9. The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it's all there.

Gail Tsukiyama

#10. Other response, he said, I make thee not,
Except the doing; for the modest asking
Ought to be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

#11. Like a stripped and lifeless trunk the Oriental church produces no theologians, thinkers, or savants.

Emilia Pardo Bazan

#12. I knew revenge like the ghost of an old friend." ~ #1001

Pippa DaCosta

#13. That hot, throbbing feeling.The one between your legs. I know it's there, sweetheart, and it needs me." He nipped at the inside of her arm. "Come with me now and I'll bring it screaming out of you.

Anonymous

#14. Thus terminating the interview, during which both ladies had trembled very much, and been marvellously polite
certain indications that they were within an inch of a very desperate quarrel ...

Charles Dickens

#15. A fool is surrounded by blessings, but is chained by folly and thus cannot reach them. A wise person is surrounded by blessings, and has extra-long arms to reach for them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. And what great thing have you done?" asked the peasant. "We? Oh, nothing." "Then to the oven!" he replied. The

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#17. Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

Eckhart Tolle

#18. A nation which receives a culture ready made, and not elaborated by itself, condemns itself to intellectual sterility; at most it can only hope to imitate well.

Emilia Pardo Bazan

#19. In Europe, you would almost never have people with large amounts of income being happy with a two-volume vehicle like a hatchback or a minivan. They want to structurally show their societal position, which is why three volumes are so popular. They show 'I'm part of that hierarchy.'

Chris Bangle

#20. Regent, Boris Godonof, riveted the chains of slavery upon the wrists of many millions of human beings in Russia.

Emilia Pardo Bazan

#21. God punishes sins, but the world I see only punishes lack of foresight and blunders.

Emilia Pardo Bazan