Penelope Mortimer Quotes

#1. I have tried to be honest with you, although I suppose that you would really have been more interested in my not being honest. Some of these things happened, and some were dreams. They were all true, as I understood truth. They are all real, as I understood reality.

Penelope Mortimer

#2. I want to fly from a window and pour through the air like a wind of love to raise his hair and slide into the palms of his hands.

Penelope Mortimer

#3. Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient.

Gary Lineker

#4. But it is arrogance that keeps one alive: the belief that one can choose, that one' choice is important, that one is responsible only to oneself. Without arrogance what would we be?

Penelope Mortimer

#5. Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime patriotic, democratic, and human faith, which, in our days, should be the very foundation of all generous intelligence.

Victor Hugo

#6. There's no reason for me to go into a big dissertation about why I'm not getting the calls. The refs have to do their jobs as well. I even mentioned it in training camp to the refs when we had our little meeting.

Michael Vick

#7. Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.

Scott Adams

#8. Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

Aleister Crowley

#9. Fashion is nice, but it's for the fans. If it were up to me, I'd be in a sweat suit!

Gloria Estefan

#10. Hell is so bloody thing, but with Lucifer from Lucifer series, hell is like comedy.

Deyth Banger

#11. I began drinking because the thought that I was drinking gave me a kind of identity: each time I poured myself a brandy in the deserted afternoon I could say to myself 'I am a woman who drinks.

Penelope Mortimer

#12. Can't you see? Before you knew the truth, we were happy. What's the god in ferreting out the truth all that time? It's always unpleasant."
"Is it only lies that are Pleasant?"
"Usually. That's why people tell them. To make life bearable.

Penelope Mortimer

#13. There was a fellow called Smiley married Ann Sercomb, Lord Sawley's cousin. Damned pretty girl, Ann was, and went and married this fellow. Some funny little beggar in the Civil Service with an OBE and a gold watch. Sawley was damned annoyed.

John Le Carre

#14. When I was fourteen I had the world at my feet but somebody didn't do their job properly and allowed me to sin.

Penelope Mortimer

#15. The height of mediocrity is still low.

Vanna Bonta

#16. In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers' broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Aberjhani