Governess Quotes

#1. Ah, there's the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.

Lisa Kleypas

#2. There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards.

Sarah MacLean

#3. Ann turns to me. I know she's waiting for some hint of kindness-a kiss, an embrace, even a smile. But I can't muster any of it.
"You'll make a fine governess." My words are like a slap.
"I know," she answers, a slap of her own.

Libba Bray

#4. His brows rose. "And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?"
"I'm a governess," she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough.

Julia Quinn

#5. I do not traditionally speak ill of women, but your governess is a cabbagehead

Sarah MacLean

#6. It seemed to Kitty a pity that her new friend's mind was set so irrevocably upon marriage, but her suggestion that Olivia might seek an eligible situation as a governess met with no favour at all. Olivia stared at her with dismay in her big eyes, and unequivocally stated her preference for death.

Georgette Heyer

#7. Though sympathy tugged at her, Sophie's imagination made fearsome leaps. The grieving widower. The destitute governess. A motherless child. It had all the makings of a scintillating novel.

Laura Frantz

#8. He should have told her that whatever her station in life - cook, housekeeper, companion, governess, whatever, it mattered naught to him so long as she exchanged it for the position of his baroness. And

Grace Burrowes

#9. The Garden trapped me like an animal. The Governess sold me like livestock at an auction. And the mayor and his family would have made me their whore. I am shaking with rage.

Kristen Simmons

#10. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote

Leo Tolstoy

#11. A lady might feel fear, but she must not give in to it, or so her governess had taught her.

Theodora Goss

#12. She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do.
And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find
herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.

Terry Pratchett

#13. Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.

Clare Boothe Luce

#14. The Governess when she thought that she'd be lucky to sell even 50 books to family and friends. But she has been so very thrilled

Ellise C. Weaver

#15. His limp had been very pronounced that day, and he had been self-conscious, feeling - as he often did - as if he were playing the role of an impoverished governess in a Dickensian drama.

Hanya Yanagihara

#16. Anne's is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.

Jude Morgan

#17. The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at.

Susanna Clarke

#18. My education started with Latin taught at home by a governess, I can't imagine why, and for some reason I attended the Infants Department of the Oxford High School for Girls before moving to the Dragon School at the dangerous age of 8 or so.

Tim Hunt

#19. Hell is cold. Do you remember when you told me that? We were in the cellars of the Dark House. Anyone else would have been panicking, but you were as calm as a governess, telling me Hell was covered in ice. If it is the fire of Heaven that takes you from me, what a cruel irony that would be.

Cassandra Clare

#20. governess was not in yet; then,

Anne Bronte

#21. My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.

Philippa Gregory

#22. When a man marries, it's proof he can't govern his life. He needs a governess

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#23. She boasted the general battle-ax demeanor of an especially strict governess. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs.
Alexia liked her immediately.

Gail Carriger

#24. She should have read the damned play. She should have spent hours reading Shakespeare. The duke was making literature sound a lot more interesting than her governess had ever done.

Eloisa James

#25. It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.

Winston Churchill

#26. I'm very lucky in that I've gotten to do a lot of things. But if you ever put a gun to my head and said, "You can only do one," I'd think it would be stand-up. I think it's the coolest job in the world.

Jeff Foxworthy

#27. Was a dead Vietnamese in civilian clothes part of the enemy forces? Officers started to make up numbers to give their superiors the body count they wanted.

Michael Barone

#28. It was clear that the house was run on a certain system, of either great pomposity or great denial - it was too early for her to make up her mind about which one it was.

Noorilhuda

#29. The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.

Joseph Joubert

#30. 'Instructions Not Included' is proving that there is a huge Latin market that needs a special project. They love seeing their own people; they want to see themselves onscreen. In my case, I know them pretty well. I know what they laugh at. I think it's going to open a lot of doors, this movie.

Eugenio Derbez

#31. The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.

Ken Follett

#32. Guns are not the problem. It is us that is the problem.

Keita Shimizu

#33. But I think it's more fulfilling to be working with people.

Jean Stapleton

#34. Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one

Stella Adler

#35. I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most development programs are started and led by people with Ph.Ds in economics or policy. Samasource is part of a cadre of younger organizations headed by entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds.

Leila Janah

#36. I was training to be a lawyer ... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

Gerard Butler

#37. I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.

Christina Dodd

#38. If I could email my jokes to the crowd and get the same immediate response [as during stand-up], I'd do that.

W. Kamau Bell

#39. One is only as good as one is useful.

Noorilhuda

#40. Like a peacock, dance with an open mind and a loving heart to reveal your incredible beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#41. No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.

Henry Petroski

#42. Ethics is a skill

Marianne M. Jennings

#43. When you are writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

Tom Waits