Top 35 Granville Quotes
#2. Thamsine Granville had not begun the day with the intention of killing Oliver Cromwell.
Alison Stuart
#3. Always endeavor to really be what you would wish to appear.
Granville Sharp
#4. Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.
Clare Mulley
#5. When he came he first covered me with his revolver', Christine write in her official report, but it was not long before Waem put the gun down on the table between them.
Clare Mulley
#6. As soon as you think you've got the key to the stock market, they change the lock.
Joseph Granville
#9. A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity.
Granville Sharp
#10. Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools;
Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools:
Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell;
Not left us women, or not threatened hell.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
#14. Why do you assume I'm human?
I wasn't born; I was created just like this.
First I was an idea.
Then I came into being, charged with a very important task.
I've come to find the monster.
Eliza Granville
#15. If buying equities seem the most hazardous and foolish thing you could possibly do, then you are near the bottom that will end the bear market.
Joseph Granville
#17. The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be ... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.
Granville Hicks
#20. Perhaps... Perhaps he could make her happy. Not with the Granville money or his social cachet, but just by being the man he was, at his core. Sometimes, when he looked deep into those blue eyes, it felt like anything was possible.
Tessa Dare
#21. Granville did not come to enquire after me, as I had known he would not. I had always considered him made awkward by painful emotion, but now I considered that perhaps hew as only unfeeling.
Anna Freeman
#26. Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But Muldowney was wrong. He had never possessed Christine; the resistance burning within her was too great.
Clare Mulley
#27. Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams ... their demons
Eliza Granville
#28. For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today.
Clare Mulley
#32. We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.
Evelyn Boyd Granville
#33. Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
