Lady Violet Sayings

#1. In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Bernard Levin

#2. Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.

Lady Violet

#3. No family is ever what it seems from the outside.

Lady Violet

#4. If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.

Lady Violet

#5. There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

Lady Violet

#6. There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.

Robert Plant

#7. Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

Thomas Frank

#8. Violet will carry he mark of Merlin's bloodline and she'll be able to wake The Lady from her slumber.

Allison Sipe

#9. Together we can;alone I can't".

Rajesh Walecha

#10. First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.

Lady Violet

#11. So, I have to know," he says, "what are you?"
But just because he has to know doesn't mean I have to tell him anything.

Marilyn Hilton

#12. It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance.

Pope Francis

#13. How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.

Khalil Gibran

#14. The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable.

John Pipkin

#15. Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.

Lady Violet

#16. When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Luc Tuymans

#17. Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

Karl Kraus

#18. While everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#19. It's the job of grandmothers to interfere.

Lady Violet