Monstrous Regiment Quotes

#1. The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

John Knox

#2. I crawled into my books and pulled the pages up over my head.
(A Monstrous Regiment of Women)

Laurie R. King

#3. The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#4. The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

John Owen

#5. Sooner or later all things are numbers, yes?

Terry Pratchett

#6. Sometimes, of course, the war required that he be cruel, but what cause worth fighting for did not require cruelty of its champions once in a while?

Clive Barker

#7. Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

Kevin Spacey

#8. The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.

Taylor Mali

#9. I'm very aware of my own background. I'm Irish, French, and then a little bit of everything else thrown in, ranging from German to Native American. We're talking about tiny drops of blood.

Anne Hathaway

#10. I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.

Tavi Gevinson

#11. Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.

Czeslaw Milosz

#12. He wasn't a whole person any longer, but only half of something not yet made.

Diana Gabaldon

#13. There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#14. It was unsettling, Laurel thought, suppressing a shiver, how quickly a person's presence could be erased, how easily civilization gave way to wilderness.

Kate Morton

#15. The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

Stanley Crouch

#16. Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.

Howie Mandel

#17. Things happened the way they were supposed to, and it was no use trying to predict what was going to come next. People liked to think otherwise, but what you thought had no practical influence on what eventually happened. You can't think yourself well. You can't make yourself fall out of love.

Sarah Addison Allen