Patroness Quotes

#1. And the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.

Jane Austen

#2. The air of inaccessibility which her beauty and her manner gave her, tormented me in the midst of my delight, and at the height of the assurance I felt that our patroness had chosen us for one another.

Charles Dickens

#3. Have you ever been to Paris before?" I asked Kylian.
"No, though from what I've seen, I'm sure it's worth a trip. And even with what little I saw I think it's quite fitting for you to be the Patroness of Paris. You're like Paris and Paris is like you."
"Noisy?"
"A mystery.

Natalie Herzer

#4. If ye were of this world the world would love you, but I have chosen you out of the world; be ye therefore perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Honore De Balzac

#5. It's one thing to admire a man's work. It's another to get your picture in the paper doing it." General Clayton

M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

#6. You can't just say NO," he said. "You got to do NO. You got to show it. You got to show you mean it by doing it. You got to show you're not going to do one thing by doing another. You got to make an end of it. One way or another.

Flannery O'Connor

#7. The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. You're better off single," Bill had always told him. "More marketable. A relationship will threaten your role as America's heartthrob." And always he would add, "Whatever you do, Hill, don't get someone pregnant. It'd be a death knell to your image.

Karen Kingsbury

#9. Felix Mersey might be the cream of the aristocracy, but in the boiler room Soap was undisputed king - grimy empire though it might be.

Gail Carriger

#10. I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.

Pam Grier

#11. When God brings deep conviction and I agree with Him about my condition, God restores my confidence in Him.

Johnny Hunt

#12. Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.

Penelope Cruz

#13. A superb and dreadfully moving account of the glory and subsequent murder by the Romanians of the Jewish city in Odessa ... Odessa is both celebration and lament and equally impressive as both.

Harold Bloom