Quotes About Aquitaine

#1. Even after more than five hundred years in Heaven, Eleanor of Aquitaine still missed quarreling and dressing up. Eleanor missed strong, sweet smells. Eleanor missed feeling hot and being cold. Eleanor missed Henry. She missed life.

E.L. Konigsburg

#2. Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also written a script about the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This will make me sound like a female Kenneth Branagh, but I can't think of anything nicer than directing myself from a script I wrote.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#3. Such, under the reign of the Antonines, were the six provinces of Gaul; the Narbonnese, Aquitaine, the Celtic, or Lyonnese, the Belgic, and the two Germanies. We

Edward Gibbon

#4. Lady Aquitaine sighed. Then it all hinges on Scipio. He has a rather irritating talent for impersonating a fulcrum.

Jim Butcher

#5. Eleanor's greatest grievance was not a simpering lass with flaxen hair and smooth skin. It was Aquitaine, always Aquitaine.

Sharon Kay Penman

#6. Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

Eleanor Of Aquitaine

#7. My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.

Eleanor Of Aquitaine

#8. From whom but the Devil did this advice come under which you are acting? Those who are urging you to repeat your former wrongdoings against an innocent person are seeking in this not your honour but their own convenience. They are clearly the enemies of your crown and the disturbers of your realm.

Alison Weir

#9. No one is sanctified except him who is united to the Church.

Prosper Of Aquitaine

#10. Marketing yourself to a new person often involves being charismatic, clever and quick-but most jobs and most relationships are about being consistent, persistent and brave.

Seth Godin

#11. Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

David Copperfield

#12. We've schemed and fought and loved until we are so entangled in hearts and minds that there is no way to set us free. God help us both, Harry, for we will never be rid of each other. Not even death will do that.

Sharon Kay Penman

#13. Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.
[First letter to Pope Celestine (1193)]

Eleanor Of Aquitaine

#14. The end did not justify the means, but justifiable means that brought about a fair and necessary conclusion were not to be dismissed.

Robert Ludlum

#15. What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.

Patricia Briggs

#16. Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be no more than a decorative asset to her husband, the mother of his heirs and the arbiter of good taste and modesty.

Alison Weir

#17. The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love in the third she regrets it.

Prosper Of Aquitaine

#18. It feels like he's marking me. Like he's preparing me for something monumental. That could both change and ruin my life.

Katy Evans

#19. We are not saved by good works; we are saved for good works. The Christian lifestyle is to be a lifestyle of goodness.

Rick Warren

#20. She knew she'd wounded him when he'd least expected it, and her satisfaction lasted until the door had closed behind him. Once he was gone, it ebbed away along with her anger, leaving her with naught but the ashes and embers of a dying hearth fire.

Sharon Kay Penman

#21. My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

Elizabeth Warren

#22. Hugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough.

Elizabeth Hurley

#23. Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

Percy Bysshe Shelley