Leeward Islands Quotes

#1. several hundred English lived on Tortuga, the westernmost part of the sprawling British Leeward Islands

Colin Woodard

#2. I must break out ...
... start a new life ...
been here for years ...
might be getting into a rut ...
something a bit more exciting ...
more adventurous ...
something with more of a challenge ...
There's not much opportunity for self-advancement in toilets ...

Raymond Briggs

#3. But Mrs. Wingfold had developed a great aptitude for liking people. Surely more people would allow themselves to be thus changed if they realized how greatly the coming of the kingdom of God is slowed by a simple lack of courtesy.

George MacDonald

#4. Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago, has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

Jerome K. Jerome

#5. Or how it feels to be more important than kings and queens, than presidents or prime ministers or heroes, to be sure of it, in the same way that people are more important than brussels sprouts?

Neil Gaiman

#6. There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon