Parlours Quotes

#1. On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

Deborah Sampson

#2. Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.

Warren Spector

#3. I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.

Sarah Waters

#4. Surely a man must be in a parlours state to excite pity, extremely weak to inspire sympathy, or very evil-looking to make a soul tremble in a den like this, where pain must hold its tongue, poverty remain cheerful, and despair retain its self respect.

Honore De Balzac

#5. The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.

Rex Hunt

#6. Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors,
Bells in your parlours, wild cats in your kitchens,
Saints in your injuries, devils being offended,
Players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds.

William Shakespeare

#7. The purpose of writing inspirational notes is simply to build others up because there are too many people in the demolition business.

Norman Vincent Peale

#8. Well, banks are the biggest mafia, you know, except for the government of course.

Kenneth Eade

#9. You can be brave and still be feminine. You can lead and still love flowers. Most importantly, you can be queen and still be a bride.

Kiera Cass

#10. It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#11. I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.

Joss Whedon

#12. Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

Walter Keane

#13. My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.

Olivia Newton-John

#14. Keep your expectations high,
Not because you are better than anyone else, but because you have experienced enough pain; to realise, you won't settle anymore.

Nikki Rowe

#15. I like to play the piano with lyrics as if it was a piece of love letter.

Yoochun

#16. Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.

Marcel Proust

#17. In isolated or country places no man's life is safe.

John White Geary

#18. The first time Kyuss was about to get signed, they're like, 'We'd like to sign you!' and we just said, 'No! Forget it!' because we thought people were always trying to invade everything.

Josh Homme

#19. Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.

Shannon L. Alder