Nosegay Quotes

#1. If the mitred bishops seen you that time, they'd be the like of the holy prophets, I'm thinking, do be straining the bars of Paradise to lay eyes on the Lady Helen of Troy, and she abroad, pacing back and forward, with a nosegay in her golden shawl.

J.M. Synge

#2. Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

Henry David Thoreau

#3. There was Fiona Fiddick's faculties for both humour and sewing, which enabled her to hide the words FEED ME in an embroidered nosegay of coral peonies which Miss Sheffleton proudly hung upon the classroom wall.

Lyndsay Faye

#4. I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me ...

Michel De Montaigne

#6. carried a nosegay of summer flowers. Winston

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#7. They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

Audie Murphy

#8. Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.

Dillon Burroughs

#9. My grandmother's apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

Arnon Goldfinger

#10. Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

Mark Twain

#11. Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

Isaac Newton

#12. A vague soil spread and ready from which friendships would spring.

Ayn Rand

#13. No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.

Charles Dickens

#14. Not merely godforsaken, I feel forsaken by everyone.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole the church, party, nation and not to his fellow true believer. True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society .

Eric Hoffer