Quotes About Becky Sharp

#1. Ah, but you're the insidious type
Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.

Dodie Smith

#2. Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

Thomas Huxley

#3. I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.

Lance Loud

#4. There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.

Moliere

#5. Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.

Yvon Chouinard

#6. Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.

Gabrielle Roy

#7. Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.

Carrie Vaughn

#8. Acting and the navy seem to balance each other out - I've not surrendered over to the complete process of the navy, nor have I surrendered to the ego-driven process of acting.

Mark Hadlow

#9. I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

Jennifer Aniston

#10. A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.

Becky G

#12. The greatness of life lives within you.

Jacob Collins

#13. He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#14. She was one of those busy creatures, that can be no more contained in one place than a sunbeam or a summer breeze

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#15. Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [ ... ] For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.

Charles Krauthammer