Fairlie's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. What the road really was, she fancied, was this hypodermic needle, inserted somewhere ahead into the vein of a freeway, a vein nourishing the mainliner L.A., keeping it happy, coherent, protected from pain, or whatever passes, with a city, for pain.

Thomas Pynchon

#4. Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but [by] the manner in which they act, the way they see themselves, and the values that they uphold.

Frank Furedi

#5. He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Henry Fairlie

#7. The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

Bernard Levin

#8. It is impossible to understand the financial health of big financial institutions and their potential impact on the market. They don't even understand it themselves.

Paul Singer

#9. I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes.

Ruth Rendell

#10. 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

#11. When you get yourself under complete control, you can be your own boss.

Napoleon Hill

#12. 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

#13. Browsing our local farmer's market is one of my family's favorite weekend activities. Make it a relaxing, healthful habit for your family, and you'll reap the nutritional rewards.

Suzanne Somers

#14. It is unutterably boring, the multitudes in progression from innocence to inkling to knowledge to the inevitable apotheosis of desperation.

Catherynne M Valente

#15. Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!

Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Henry Fairlie

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. It is not speaking that breaks our silence, but the anxiety to be heard. The words of the proud man impose silence on all others, so that he alone may be heard. The humble man speaks only in order to be spoken to.

Thomas Merton

#21. No one is exempt from grief.

Gregory Maguire

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

Henry Fairlie