Macklin Quotes

#1. Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.

John Arbuthnot

#2. Derek cuddled his daughter against his shoulder and spoke in a mixture of baby words and cockney, a language only she seemed to understand.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. I hate you!" Pen's would-be shout was muffled by breathlessness, and not-Triss realized that the younger girl was sobbing with exhaustion and rage. "I hate you! You stupid . . . Why did you have to happen? I never asked for a stupid . . . stupid . . . toothy . . . stupid . . . monster thing.

Frances Hardinge

#4. Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.

Luc De Clapiers

#5. Jubal waved the man back. "Private," he said firmly. "Family matter. Go have a drink." "Whose family?" "A death in yours, if you insist. Scat!

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

Charles Macklin

#7. The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

Charles Macklin

#8. I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

Jean M. Auel

#9. I'm sharp. What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.

Pitbull

#10. The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.

Charles Macklin

#11. You are as welcome as the flowers in May.

Charles Macklin

#12. Every tub must stand upon its bottom.

Charles Macklin

#13. I always feel a little guilty when I break bad news to someone, because that energy, of knowing something others don't, sort of puffs you up.

Jane Smiley

#14. In spite of all the farmer's work and worry, he can't reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth bestows.

Rainer Maria Rilke