Henry Noel Brailsford Quotes

#1. Do you remember little Zoe Octavia Lexham?' he said.
His aunt cast her pale blue gaze in the direction of the great chandelier, as though that was where she kept her memory. 'Zoe Octavia,' she said.

Loretta Chase

#2. Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
Roses do blush and hang their heads

Henry Noel Brailsford

#3. They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.

Henry Noel Brailsford

#4. Hit the Dead for they won't listen,
Hit the Dead for they don't know,
Hit the Dead they're all imprisoned,
Hit the Dead before they go...

Peter L Masters

#5. Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast,
A full-hatched beauty seems to nest
Nor snow, which falling from the sky
Hovers in its virginity.

Henry Noel Brailsford

#6. I'll have to try the clothes on." She raised her hand handcuffed to his to emphasize how difficult that would be.
He smiled. He wasn't letting her out of his sight. The vixen smiled back.

Terry Spear

#7. As the Siberian saying goes: One hundred versts (roughly a hundred miles) is no distance. A hundred rubles isn't worthwhile money. And a hundred grams of vodka just makes you thirsty.

Farley Mowat

#8. In living organisms, nucleic acid molecules are the only indefinite hereditary replicators, or at least they were until the invention of language and music.

John Maynard Smith