Faerie Queene Quotes

#1. Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene:
"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please"
This also became Conrad's epitaph.

Joseph Conrad

#2. I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do - so much have I enjoyed it.

C.S. Lewis

#3. Most critics agree with the seventeenth-century printer who gave them to the world, that the Mutabilitie Cantos seem to be part of some following book of The Faerie Queene.

Janet Spens

#4. The cameraman isn't thinking about whether you're good that day. He's too busy worrying about what he has to do.

Meredith Salenger

#5. Nick looked to the sky again, searching for a last glimpse of the shiny jet. 'For us, maybe, but courtesy of Nina and her reckless ambition Ellie Wilding will remember this day for the rest of her life.

Helene Young

#6. The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

Samuel Johnson

#7. I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.

Lanford Wilson

#8. Acknowledgements
With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

Gail Carriger

#9. I think people don't think I work, because I wear stilettos and look damn fine. But that's discrimination against stilettos and against looking damn fine! And I object to this form of discrimination!

C. JoyBell C.

#10. For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

Edmund Spenser