Queene Quotes

#1. Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene:
"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please"
This also became Conrad's epitaph.

Joseph Conrad

#2. Joy may you have and gentle hearts content
Of your loves couplement:
And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love,
With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

Edmund Spenser

#3. I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do - so much have I enjoyed it.

C.S. Lewis

#4. Most critics agree with the seventeenth-century printer who gave them to the world, that the Mutabilitie Cantos seem to be part of some following book of The Faerie Queene.

Janet Spens

#5. Sense of beauty, perception, and the mathematical universe are all part of the same texture.

Neeti Sinha

#6. Speak, speak, speak,
& remember that whenever
anyone's liberty to speak is denied,
your liberty is denied also, & your place
is where the attack is..

Voltairine De Cleyre

#7. I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Clint Eastwood

#8. I never felt big enough playing Thor. And then people talk about you like you're 9-foot tall and 800 pounds. I'm well aware of the illusion. There's not a second where I go: Yeah, I'm a god.

Chris Hemsworth

#9. I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.

Pedro Martinez

#10. People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.

Emilio Pucci

#11. Don't fear big. Fear mediocrity. Fear waste. Fear the lack of living to your fullest

Gary Keller

#12. They envy the distinction I have won; let them, therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Sallust

#13. It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.

Joseph O'Neill

#14. I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?

Bette Greene

#15. For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

Edmund Spenser

#16. I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.

Pearl Primus