Quotes About Fleur De Lis

#1. Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbons of France, the fleur-de-lis, Scotland her thistle, and Ireland her shamrock.

Dorothea Dix

#2. France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

Charles De Gaulle

#3. Lady Mary came last. She looked magnificent, even regal. Her dress was highly fashionable; dark slate blue overlaid with black fleur-de-lis and stitched with jet beads across the throat and bosom, the sleeves garnered. A black hat adorned her head at a rakish angle, dashing and precarious.

Anne Perry

#4. We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

Hank Johnson

#5. Light and evanescent but held together by bolts of iron

Virginia Woolf

#6. Whatever had happened, she wondered, to the concept of reading as entertainment? Now it appeared to be an endurance contest as to how many pages the reader could get through without throwing up.
(Lorinda, chapter 1)

Marian Babson

#7. I felt like someone who'd been informed that she wasn't actually a hooker; that in fact she was a lady of the evening.

Neil Gaiman

#8. Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.

Matthew Kelly

#9. I love you, too. But I'm terrified.

Christina Lauren

#10. Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.

Mahatma Gandhi