Fairlie Quotes

#1. Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us ...

Wilkie Collins

#2. Ane fals intent under ane fair pretence
Hes causit mony innocent for to de.
Grit folie is to gif over-sone credence
To all that speiks fairlie unto the.

Robert Henryson

#3. Here, then, was one of my anticipations of the morning still unfulfilled. I began to wonder, next, whether my introduction to Miss Fairlie would disappoint the expectations that I had been forming of her since breakfast-time.

Wilkie Collins

#4. If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie's face, then, and then only, Anne Catherick and she would be the twin-sisters of chance resemblance, the living reflections of one another.

Wilkie Collins

#5. We are at full stop. We think we have arrived.

Henry Fairlie

#6. Without good personal brands, whatever you do may not be accepted and patronized; without any brand at all, you may do something great which will not be known.

Israelmore Ayivor

#7. The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Leon Trotsky

#8. It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can't really love anyone more.

David Levithan

#10. Nothing is more important than a good education.

Roy Wilkins

#11. Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.

Henry Fairlie

#12. I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.

Ralph Lauren

#13. All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#14. There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

Henry Fairlie

#15. The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself.

Henry Fairlie

#16. I felt the threads of connection between us - fragile filaments, so easily snapped. Like the poem at shift into his side, we were craving to fit inside the other, and is melting and reshaping could be deeper, more resilient.

Tammara Webber

#17. Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.

Henry Fairlie