Top 100 Quotes About Constance
#1. When Constance was born, Aunt Glo named her after the dormitory she lived in at college: Constance Hall.
Sheri Reynolds
#2. or less in bits. Constance, his wife, was then twenty-three years old,
D.H. Lawrence
#3. To Lilo, Suleika, Constance, and Raul, thank you for coming up with some really good character names when I was in a pinch.
Kayti Nika Raet
#4. Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test? It reads, 'What's wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?
Trenton Lee Stewart
#5. Constance could put names to all the growing things, but I was content to know them by their way and place of growing, and their unfailing offers of refuge.
Shirley Jackson
#6. As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.
Francis Quarles
#7. Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob's viewing pleasure and in return he had placed African art of naked men above his desk for her.
Cecelia Ahern
#8. The rain started while we sat in the kitchen, and we left the kitchen door open so we could watch the rain slanting past the doorway and washing the garden; Constance was pleased, the way any good gardener is pleased with rain.
Shirley Jackson
#9. Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart
#10. If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance.
"Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#11. Hezekiah Pendergast," Constance continued, "was the great-great-grandfather of Aloysius - and a first-rate mountebank. He began his career as a snake-oil salesman for traveling medicine shows and, over time, devised his own 'medicine': Hezekiah's Compound Elixir and Glandular Restorative.
Douglas Preston
#12. Lady Constance's lips tightened, and a moment passed during which it seemed always a fifty-fifty chance that a handsome silver ink-pot would fly through the air in the direction of her brother's head.
P.G. Wodehouse
#13. I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma
Trenton Lee Stewart
#14. Au contraire..."
"What?" Constance demanded.
Curtain blinked.
~ The Perilous Journey
Trenton Lee Stewart
#15. Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusual containers, but her arrangements tended to be a little less full.
Catherine Martin
#16. Why couldn't the two of them have gone on and on forever? Himself and Constance, sun and moon, each one of them shining, though in different ways. Instead of which he's here, forsaken by her, abandoned. In time, which fails to sustain him. In space, which fails to cradle him.
Margaret Atwood
#17. To one side, a vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, polished to a gem-like brilliance, sat on a flatbed trailer, ready to be taken to its new owner. Constance looked from Pendergast to the Rolls and back again. "I really don't need two, you know," he said.
Douglas Preston
#18. You do not set a high enough value on yourself if you think a man who loves you should not weave you into the fabric of his life with every thread. - Robert Service to Constance MacLean, 1903 (age 28)
David Eso
#19. We relied upon Constance for various small delicacies which only she could provide; I am of course not referring to arsenic.'
'Well, the blackberries were the most important part.' Mrs. Wright sounded a little hoarse.
Shirley Jackson
#20. When Constance Quakenbush smugly asked what she was going to do with her life, now that Jack Griffith was marrying that Laura Lovelorn girl, Viviane answered her with a soda fountain smile and a declaration: I'm going to fly.
Leslye Walton
#21. --spring lamb roasted, with a mint jelly made from Constance's garden mint. Spring potatoes, new peas, a salad, again from Constance's garden. I remember it perfectly, madam. It is still one of my favorite meals.
Shirley Jackson
#22. At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#23. Just what we need.A dull-witted lord," Constance mused. "At least he doesn't seem menacing anymore."
Just wait,old woman, and you will learn just how menacing this dull-witted lord can be, Ranulf promised.
Michele Sinclair
#24. I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.'
'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.
Shirley Jackson
#25. CARDINAL PANDULPH You hold too heinous a respect of grief. CONSTANCE He talks to me that never had a son.
William Shakespeare
#26. I supposed this is what is meant by 'growing up'...Find out the difference between what one expected one's life would be like and how things really are" -Lady Constance
Maryrose Wood
#27. Dorothy Parker once said: I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid." Upon delivering this Dot bon mot, with much waving of sparkly rings and jingly bracelets, Constance Langtry comments that she'd add a fourth: "Deft tongue. And I don't mean a good talker.
Marie Wilson
#28. It's easy, Constance. All you have to do is believe." "Believe in what, Alice?" "Madness." I pull her tighter and jump.
Cameron Jace
#29. Childhood is played out in a foreign language and our memory of it is a Constance Garnett translation.
Rabih Alameddine
#30. Constance had joined him at the breakfast
Mary Balogh
#32. The least Charles could have done,' Constance said, considering seriously, 'was shoot himself through the head in the driveway.
Shirley Jackson
#33. With the hindsight of the worldly experience she had since acquired, it was clear to Maisie that Dame Constance had suffered fools, if not gladly, then with gracious ease.
Jacqueline Winspear
#34. MacArthur Foundation, as part of its initiative on Digital Media and Learning, we thank Constance M. Yowell, Director
Cathy N. Davidson
#35. Constance did not have a bun. She didn't need one. She more or less was a bun: neat and contained, and then so tumultuous when unleashed.
Margaret Atwood
#36. If I am spared," he always said to Constance, "I will write the book myself. If not, see that my notes are entrusted to some worthy cynic who will not be too concerned with the truth.
Shirley Jackson
#37. And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done.
William Devane
#39. And we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going up the ruined stairway to the sky.
'I am so happy,' Constance said at last, gasping. 'Merricat, I am so happy.'
'I told you that you would like it on the moon.
Shirley Jackson
#40. Constance always said good people need to stand up and do what's right, otherwise bad things will go unchallenged.
Matthew S. Williams
#41. Constance: Tell me, what happened to William's little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner.
Mary Maceachran: Elsie?
She's gone.
Constance: Oh, it's a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to have someone in the house who is actually sorry he's dead.
Julian Fellowes
#42. Constance felt the rest of Jack, the hardness at the top of his thighs, straining against her belly. He lifted her from the floor, held her against the wall, his body pushing her skirts in between her legs. He ground his hips, making her blush as a thousand nerve endings
Heather Boyd
#43. Hope is a very strange thing, Constance Thyme, and something I haven't had much of, as late. Yet all the signs lead me to believe there may be some left in the world for me, after all.
Antoinette Turner
#44. I really think I shall commence chapter forty-four," he said, patting his hands together. "I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go on from there into an outright lie. Constance, my dear?"
"Yes, Uncle Julian?"
"I am going to say that my wife was a beautiful woman.
Shirley Jackson
#45. Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you want jewels! It will be time enough for jewels, my dear, twenty years hence, when your beauty begins to want repairs.
Oliver Goldsmith
#46. I am not yet come of age, my lord. How can I be queen? asked Constance fearfully.
Laurel A. Rockefeller
#47. I should have married Constance, he says. That's his ace: plonk! Right down on the table. Those five words are usually very effective: he might score a barrage of hostility, and maybe even some tears.
Margaret Atwood
#48. On my first day on the set of 'Boston Legal,' I thought the director was calling me 'Candice' instead of 'Constance.' But I didn't realize he was actually talking to Candice Bergen.
Constance Zimmer
#49. I understand, now, that your own identity, your past, has nothing to do with the way others see you. Being a hero isn't about someone else's definition. Not Abigail's and not Constance's. Not the Post's. Not even Claire's. Being a hero is about one thing: the way you see yourself.
Rebecca Serle
#50. Perhaps the fire had destroyed everything and we would go back tomorrow and find that the past six years had been burned and they were waiting for us, sitting around the dining-room table waiting for Constance to bring them their dinner.
Shirley Jackson
#51. Lady Constance swept into the room as giddy and foolish as ever. To look at her, you would think that nothing unpleasant had ever happened in the whole history of England.
Maryrose Wood
#52. For my grief's so great
That no supporter but the huge firm earth
Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
(Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)
William Shakespeare
#53. No strings attached," Constance said again. "Oh, there are always strings," I replied. "Whether we put them there or not.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#54. Epigraph
"I got a revolver to protect us." said Miss Constance,
"and I soon had use for it."
--New York Times, June 3 1915
Amy Stewart
#55. ultimate demonstration of Constance's taste for the
Tracy Rees
#57. I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
Constance Baker Motley
#58. When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.
Constance Baker Motley
#59. Healthy surrender means allowing yourself to "be" rather than being in a constant state of want.
Bryant McGill
#60. Blake's song isn't really a song for England alone," said Dym. "It's a song for every land. We're all building the unseen Jerusalem together. But the powers of darkness don't want to see a time when the earth shall be filled with the glory of the God as the waters cover the sea.
Constance Savery
#61. We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
Constance Baker Motley
#62. I feel for all the parents whose babies just keep waking up for years. My heart and back go out to you guys! You are my heroes, and I am not fit to walk in your shoes!
Constance Marie
#63. In politics, they play games. In Hollywood, they play games. I think that, overall, everybody is trying to do whatever it takes to get ahead.
Constance Zimmer
#64. I definitely learned about the inner workings of campaigns enough to know that I'm glad that I'm not in politics.
Constance Zimmer
#67. Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.
Constance Fenimore Woolson
#68. There is no one way to render an idea. Let's explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.
Constance Hale
#69. Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?
Constance Fenimore Woolson
#70. I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.
Constance Zimmer
#71. Troll welcomes you to Norway, (these legendary creatures live throughout the mountains of Norway)
Constance Roos
#72. I'm kind of a 'Daily Show,' Bill Maher junkie. I listen to NPR and I still get the 'New York Times' paper delivered to my door, even though I live in L.A.
Constance Zimmer
#73. I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous men, prepared to serve God truly all the days of your life."
~Aunt Persis
Constance Savery
#74. I was a tomboy as a child! I wanted my daughter to be a scrapper and not so dainty.
Constance Marie
#76. My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.
Constance Marie
#77. I don't want to treat my little girl like she's made out of glass or wrap her in bubble wrap or anything! And I also don't want to be constantly correcting her or warning her. Or my least favorite, reprimanding her.
Constance Marie
#78. I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life ... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know ... you gotta do what you gotta do.
Constance Wu
#79. I don't see why I should be washed as well as hanged," quoth Kit.
from "The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood
Constance Savery
#80. But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as a rebel, an unconvertible rebel, to the one thing - a free and independent Republic.
Constance Markievicz
#81. A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.
Constance Baker Motley
#82. I would be terrified if Bill Maher was like, 'Hey, do you want to come on the show?' I would be like, 'Oh, God.' It would completely terrify me, even though I'm such a junkie for the show.
Constance Zimmer
#83. Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.
Constance Hale
#84. Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.
Constance Hale
#85. If stores and vendors know there is a demand for organic products, they will make them. The more they make, the more the cost comes down.
Constance Marie
#86. Okay - before I even had a baby, I would dream of the day I could make ponytails on my kid. I don't know why. I somehow got it in my head that it would be such a cool thing.
Constance Marie
#87. I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I was working on the movie Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five hours-if you hold it and feel its little heart beating for hours, you just can't think about eating it.
Constance Marie
#88. I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin.
Constance Jablonski
#89. In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
Constance Baker Motley
#90. I totally support women working on their relationships, their careers, or whatever they need to do to be healthy moms, but it's also important to realize you may not have as much time as you think.
Constance Marie
#92. In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.
Constance Baker Motley
#93. I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.
Constance Marie
#94. The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.
Constance Marie
#95. I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monologues when I was 10. I still know the whole 'To be, or not to be ... ' monologue, because I knew it when I was 10.
Constance Wu
#96. Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful kind of play!
Constance Reid
#99. I'm much nicer then all my characters, let's just put it that way.
Constance Zimmer
