Top 15 Parthenope Quotes
#1. Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces
Virgil
#2. Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
Walter Savage Landor
#3. I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O'Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to - I hated women pop singers.
Sophie B. Hawkins
#4. The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.
Joel Kinnaman
#6. You've got to be kidding me. You're propositioning me in a church?"
"Now where else are you going to be civil to me?
Jae T. Jaggart
#7. The Rose has always been the premiere symbol of female sexuality. In primitive goddess cults, the five petals represented the five stations of female life - birth, menstruation, motherhood, menopause, and death. And in modern times, the flowering rose's ties to womanhood are considered more visual.
Dan Brown
#8. No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.
Romain Rolland
#9. The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is 'metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology. The pigeon hole into which a man is shoved circumscribes his fate.
Max Horkheimer
#10. The war between England and Scotland was in its eighth year and there had been no raid for ten days: it had seemed possible to get married in peace.
Dorothy Dunnett
#11. We're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have
to do.
Mitch Albom
#12. The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one very big mistake. If you do that I am fucking threat to the whole world... so?
Deyth Banger
#13. Clair watched the young man pour Paul's Scotch with a previously unseen professionalism. Her wedding ring, her gentle brush-offs, and her outright rejection had been minor obstacles compared to the big no of another man kissing her cheek.
Karin Slaughter
#15. This is the army! Nobody can do the best they can.
Henry Blake
