Navarre Quotes

#1. He would die at her hands. He knew it, with sudden lightening clarity. The man he had struggled so hard to become, the all-powerful, all-knowing Simon of Navarre, would be destroyed by a woman's heart.

Anne Stuart

#2. I asked her whether, like Marguerite de Navarre, she had their hearts embalmed and hung at her girdle. She told me she didn't, because none of them had had any hearts at all.

Oscar Wilde

#3. He was lost, captured by an innocent, destroyed by a would-be nun, and there was no way the monster, Simon of Navarre, Richard the Fair's Grendel, would ever be the same.

Anne Stuart

#4. Don't they feed you at Navarre house?"
"They throw out some gruel between the indoctrination sessions and propaganda films. Then we're off marching around the grounds and the recitation of sonnets to Celina's loveliness.

Chloe Neill

#5. I stood there for a moment, playing emotional catch-up.He drove down from the Navarre House just to surprise me with flowers.And not It's -Valentines's Day-and-I-feel-olbligated flowers.These were just-because flowers.

Chloe Neill

#6. I suppose you will continue to screw things up unless I level with you, Navarre. Or unless I get someone to throw you in jail."
"Most likely."
"Goddamn your father."
"Amen.

Rick Riordan

#7. And then she was lying naked beneath the rain and the storm, the angry heavens and Simon of Navarre's golden eyes.

Anne Stuart

#8. Excuse me. I didn't know I was talking to a master."
"Tres Navarre," I said. "I usually wear a t-shirt, says 'Master.' It's in the wash.

Rick Riordan

#9. Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.

Marguerite De Navarre

#10. ... I thought I'd never seen such a miracle as the way the muscles of her thighs and buttocks flexed and relaxed in the grip of her jeans.

T.C. Boyle

#11. The successful publishing house is the one that can guess ahead, not the one that imitates the past.

Helen Jacobs

#12. I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.

Marguerite De Navarre

#13. Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame ...

Marguerite De Navarre

#14. From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.

Thomas Hobbes

#15. Candor is never indiscreet. Truth, which is to say, the reflection of life, is beautiful.

Jack Vance

#16. It is important that our relationship with farm animals is reciprocal. We owe animals a decent life and a painless death. I have observed that the people who are completely out of touch with nature are the most afraid of death ...

Temple Grandin

#17. People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

Marguerite De Navarre

#18. The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur.

Julian Barnes

#19. I ever marry, it has to be for good. If I get a divorce I lose access to the money. It all goes back to the family." "What?

Leta Blake

#20. We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

Adrian Rogers

#21. Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

Emily Saliers

#22. Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.

Marguerite De Navarre

#23. Faith's table is always laid, whether the invited guest sits down or stays away with a thousand excuses and pretexts.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#24. I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.

Charles Dickens

#25. I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they are extremely perfect and harmless, people still go after them. So I figure, if I'm going to get negativity regardless, why do I have to worry about what somebody thinks of me?

Kat Graham

#26. I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.

Marguerite De Navarre

#27. Man is wise ... when he recognizes no greater enemy than himself.

Marguerite De Navarre

#28. I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

Berthe Morisot

#29. Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.

Marguerite De Navarre

#30. God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.

Marguerite De Navarre

#31. Spite will make a woman do more than love.

Marguerite De Navarre

#32. When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.

Marguerite De Navarre