Peyne Quotes

#1. And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#2. You didn't just accidentally win my favor," I dispute, slowly shaking my
forehead against his.
"You earned it. Now, if I can just save your life twenty or thirty more times ... We might actually be able to call it even.

M.A. George

#3. A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

Marcel Proust

#4. We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

Michael Howard

#5. A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#6. What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll
a soft roll, not a hard roll
and one cup of cocoa; any attempt to alter this menu I regarded as a plot to poison me.

Esther Hautzig

#7. People sometimes complain that Berliners just sit around all day in cafes, smoking and talking about art. Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

Joe Jackson

#8. I followed Kaidan up the stairs, attempting to convince myself that having tea with a demon and his knife-slinging son was nothing to be scared about.

Wendy Higgins

#9. Do not judge a book by its price!

Claire Hamelin Manning

#10. I like to be alone and listen to music. Every match I play, I have a tune in my head over and over. It might only be a few words or a small piece of the tune, but it can drive you mad.

Ana Ivanovic

#11. London thou art a jewel of jewels, & jasper of jocunditie -- music, talk, friendship, city views, books, publishing, something central & inexplicable.

Virginia Woolf

#12. I have hundreds of Word documents filled with pages of one-liners. If I begin to write a story, or if one of my thoughts leads to more than a couple paragraphs of writing, I'll go into these documents and pull out lines that I think would work with it.

Chelsea Martin

#13. Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

John Steinbeck

#14. Early railway journeys took him to Ceylon, Thailand, and Burma; he would later describe his wanderlust as the "peripatetics of a Jewish prince".

VO Blum