French Lieutenant's Woman Quotes

#1. ...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant's Woman

John Fowles

#2. I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

Helena Bonham Carter

#3. Writing bridges conscious and subconscious mind. It is a psycho-neuromuscular activity and literally imprints the brain.

Stephen Covey

#4. One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.

Gretchen Rubin

#5. A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

Honore De Balzac

#6. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.

Albert Camus

#7. We're always trying to outdo ourselves, trying to do better, trying to write better songs. I think we want to inspire other people as well, so that's what we'll try to do through future songs.

Josh Dun

#8. You make less every time you bargain with the devil.
You make a profit every time you bargain with God.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. 'McHale's Navy' was a disaster. I'm not pretending it wasn't a disaster.

Sidney Sheinberg

#10. That's the problem with this generation; they don't know their history.

Paul Beatty

#11. Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

Rachel Bloom

#12. Your talent is a blank check.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.

Neale Donald Walsch

#14. The gap starts here: We can't give people what we don't have. Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

Brene Brown

#15. Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

Louis Leakey

#16. The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#17. I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.

Edgar Allan Poe

#18. All would be well when she was truly his; in his bed and in his bank ... and of course in his heart, too.

John Fowles