Top 100 Quotes About Antonia
#1. I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
Antonia Fraser
#2. Abel was brushing the snow off his parka while Micha was dancing around him, still balancing the plate of cookies, singing, 'We're staying, we're staying, we're staying overnight! We're drying! We're drying! We're drying on the line!
Antonia Michaelis
#3. Sometimes I don't even know if I'm extremely happy or extremely sad. It happens a lot when I think of you
Antonia Michaelis
#4. If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
Antonia Fraser
#5. People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them.
Antonia Fraser
#6. May inspiration travel and always return 360 degrees.
Antonia Perdu
#7. Having done 'Misfits' for three years solid, you become known for doing one thing, so I've wanted to change things up as much as possible with each job.
Antonia Thomas
#8. Deep down many of us experience a vast discrepancy between what we're taught we should feel about sex and how we actually feel.
Antonia Hall
#9. I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
Antonia Fraser
#10. My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
Antonia Fraser
#12. [In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.
Antonia Fraser
#13. The one who poses the most danger may not be a stranger, Sometimes it's those we hold dear that we really need to fear
Antonia Monacelli
#15. Humans are wired to want to share love, the essence of our being, with others. The more we close this area off by holding onto anger, frustrations, resentments and disappointments, the less we are able to love ourselves and others.
Antonia Hall
#16. To Balkanize has come to be used in a derogatory sense meaning to violently fragment, disrupt or disorganize..
Antonia Young
#17. Everybody knew everything now. Or did everybody know nothing? Nobody knew anything ... Nobody could know everything.
Antonia Michaelis
#18. very last answer which Paulet and Buckhurst were prepared to
Antonia Fraser
#19. It is a fact that, being a quick reader, apart from enabling a person to study good books such as Macaulay and Gibbon, enables a person to read a lot of bad books as well.
Antonia Fraser
#20. Dear Optimism, nice to see you. I've got an extra room, how about you stay for a while.
Antonia Perdu
#21. Who goes to the beach without trying to touch the water? The one who cannot see the water, but if the blind wishes to FEEL the water, he shall not retreat, just as long as he holds hands with FAITH.
Antonia Perdu
#22. Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything to keep her son alive another day.
Antonia Perdu
#24. Hating L.A. was in my Northern California DNA. We even had a burl plaque that hung on our living room wall that read, "We Don't Give a Damn How it's Done in L.A.
Antonia Crane
#25. After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
Antonia Fraser
#26. I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.
Antonia Fraser
#27. Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.
Antonia Bird
#28. I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette
Antonia Fraser
#29. I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
Antonia Fraser
#30. I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
Antonia Fraser
#31. My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
Antonia Fraser
#32. By the time Domenica arrived at the Gothic Revival sandstone building on Queen Street, she had put out of her mind all thought of Antonia's torrid affair - at least she assumed it was torrid, and anyway, she wondered if there was any point in having an affair which was not torrid.
Alexander McCall Smith
#33. The words that I will have to find for that explanation will be sharp and they will hurt, much worse than the thorns of roses.
Antonia Michaelis
#34. You know, Ian," Antonia commented, "my father always said a person needs a reason to leave and a reason to go. But I think sometimes the reason to go is so big, it fills you so much, that you don't even think of why you are leaving, you just do.
Erica Bauermeister
#35. She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.
Antonia Fraser
#36. The deep division that exists in the human race, regardless of any other more obvious distinction, between those for whom books are an obsession, and those who are prepared, good-humouredly enough, to tolerate their existence.
Antonia Fraser
#37. But what does he want my heart for?" the little queen asked.
"He just wants to own it," replied the sea lion. "That is enough. He wants to look on its beauty and know that his hands alone can touch it.
Antonia Michaelis
#38. The Golden stock ... ," Mustang murmurs. "How can you be so cold?"
"Little girl," Antonia sighs, "Gold is a cold metal.
Pierce Brown
#40. Tapping into our inherent sexuality can offer a gateway to deep healing of past hurts and wounds, which are carried in the body and can hinder one's potentials for leading the happy, sexually fulfilled life we all deserve.
Antonia Hall
#42. The white noise from the old Walkman enveloped them both; like a blanket of new snow, it draped itself over them, shutting out all the curious looks.
And the world under the blanket was - surprisingly, wonderfully - absolutely, quiet.
Antonia Michaelis
#43. The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't find any tears in herself to cry for the storyteller.
The storyteller didn't exist anymore.
Antonia Michaelis
#44. When people come up to me and say, 'Oh my God - you're that character,' I feel like replying, 'No, I'm just like you; it's just a job.'
Antonia Thomas
#45. Bullies are just men who don't know they are cowards, of course.
Antonia Hodgson
#46. It is always yesterday, tomorrow, and 3 years ago today. It is always your birthday. It is always the future, the present, and the past. It is always eternity that will last.
Antonia Perdu Millie Farquoix
#47. I don't know what happened between the two of you. I don't know if it can be forgiven. The hardest thing always is to forgive yourself.
Antonia Michaelis
#48. Our dreams can carry valuable information when we consciously choose to start listening to them.
Antonia Hall
#49. I am at times prisoner to the darkness. Light will find a way in I am always assured. The sun has not died. The moon has not died. I live.
Antonia Perdu
#50. My upbringing has always been quite equal in terms of cultural influences. But it's unlikely that anything could prepare you for a job that involves belting out Proclaimers songs on camera, in Edinburgh and in public.
Antonia Thomas
#51. Part of her - unreasonable Anna- still loved him. Maybe she would never stop loving him.
Antonia Michaelis
#52. It was a disaster ... It was the most wonderful thing in the world.
Antonia Michaelis
#53. You can't change things. That's life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet.
Antonia Michaelis
#54. Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry.
Antonia Montoya
#55. He'd been unhappy, restless, irritable since leaving Surrey. He'd lived on memories of her. Her absence slowly strangled him. The instant he took Antonia in his arms, he breathed again.
Anna Campbell
#56. Go away princess. Leave your outlaw alone. You won't change him ... go away, Anna, far away, and don't ever come back. The fairy tale doesn't have a happy ending.
Antonia Michaelis
#57. People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
Antonia Fraser
#58. Where does someone go when he dies?', 'When does fear end?', 'Where are all the single socks that disappeared in the washing machine?
Antonia Michaelis
#59. The enigma.
The flowers that bloom in the dark shine the brightest.
We bloom from the moonlight.
Antonia Perdu
#60. Antonia, if Mark is right and I never see you again, if this really is good-bye, tell me one thing for certain. Tell me I won't die knowing you married him willingly. Fight them both with all you have.
Julie March
#61. Dance me through th curtains that our kisses have out worm.
Raise a ent of shelter now, though every thread is torn.
Dance me to the end of love.
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin.
Antonia Michaelis
#62. Her words were like the hammer. My stance was of a nail. I didn't need those callous words on my once strong shell. Hammered. Hammered. Words on my shoulder blades. All of my great feelings concave.
Antonia Perdu
#63. He'd been right about her determination to save the people she loved. He wondered with a sudden pang he couldn't identify how it would feel having someone like Antonia on his side.
Anna Campbell
#64. I slipped one of the shoes off, looked at the inside. Property of Antonia O'Neill Taylor. I knew it. My stepmother! The bitch meant to bury me wearing her cast off shoes!
MaryJanice Davidson
#66. Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.
Antonia Fraser
#67. They saw him walk away, leave a world he'd never really been part of. They saw him pull his hat down low and get onto his bike. He forgot the Walkman's earplugs. Maybe, Anna thought, he didn't need them anymore; maybe the white noise had finally made it into his head.
Antonia Michaelis
#68. I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
Antonia Fraser
#69. Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
Antonia Fraser
#70. You didn't see us," she said to Anna ...
"I was ... lost in thought," Anna replied.
"What were you thinking about?"
"You," Anna said. "Isn't that strange? I was thinking of you two so hard that I didn't see you.
Antonia Michaelis
#71. It's nice to have proper film fans respecting and appreciating your work.
Antonia Thomas
#72. It's only a dogma that hells exists; it isn't a dogma that there's anybody in it.
Antonia White
#73. I live what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Mother Antonia
#74. I am not staying with the murderer," she said, her words muffled by his jacket. "I am not staying with the victim Abel Tannatek or the culprit Abel Tannatek. I am staying with the storyteller.
Antonia Michaelis
#76. Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
Antonia Fraser
#77. Gratitude is not something idyllic that comes when all good things line up to be counted. Gratitude is there all the time waiting to be focused on.
Antonia Montoya
#78. I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.
Antonia Bird
#79. He whom is without typos, throw the first stone.
Antonia Perdu
#80. You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.
Antonia Bird
#81. Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
Antonia Fraser
#82. I'm doing a thousand new things in spite of myself," he said. "It's not easy, you know, to jump over your shadow.
Antonia Michaelis
#83. I've felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from 'Misfits'.
Antonia Thomas
#84. I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.
Antonia Thomas
#85. Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.
Antonia Fraser
#86. Possibly, she thought, the pool of answers was limited. There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.
Antonia Michaelis
#87. Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.
Antonia Fraser
#88. Could time be measured in the books you have read and the books you haven't read?
Antonia Honeywell
#89. We were bullied, broken, built up, bronzed and polished.
We grew dull, dusty, doubtful, dark, and forgetful.
Yet we still know that we can love deeply.
Antonia Perdu
#90. I think I drunk e-mailed the Auckland Philharmonic last night.
Antonia Murphy
#91. What does that mean?' Anna whispered. 'What does that all mean?
Abel ran his fingers through her hair again, and his hand wandered down and stayed on her throat. 'It means everything,' he whispered back. 'And nothing.
Antonia Michaelis
#92. I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
Antonia Fraser
#93. Don Jose Avellanos depended very much upon the devotion of his beloved Antonia. He accepted it in the benighted way of men, who, though made in God's image, are like stone idols without sense before the smoke of certain burnt offerings.
Joseph Conrad
#94. I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.
Antonia Fraser
#95. My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.
Antonia Thomas
#96. What are we doing? Are we talking? Are we having fun? Are we building, destroying, remembering, or forgetting love?
Antonia Perdu
#97. Anna watched as Abel walked across the empty schoolyard, she wondered whether there was a limit to desolation or whether it grew endlessly, infinitely. Desolation with a hundred faces and more, desolation of a hundred different kinds and more, like the color blue.
Antonia Michaelis
#98. To these women, the veil constitutes an extremely important part of the idea of 'getting dressed', whereas in the West the veil represents a symbol of male dominance..
Antonia Young
#99. It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.
Antonia Thomas
#100. It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived (and in this case long-desired) advantage is at stake
Antonia Fraser
