Quotes About Heloise

#1. Instead of the smoldering, soul-baring, Abelard-to-Heloise-sans-castration solicitations you rightfully deserve, you're getting stupefying lines like: I'm listening to NPR. Do you want to come over and make out?

Maria Dahvana Headley

#2. Heloise learned to love Abelard solely for who he was. That forbidden love brought her nothing but pain, but she would rather have shame and pain with Abelard than peace and happiness without him.

Gary Thomas

#3. Heloise long ago reconciled herself to the idea that all is fair in love and war, which is just another way of saying that nothing in life is ever fair, because life is love and war.

Laura Lippman

#4. Song: Heloise and Abelard by Elizabeth Devlin. Beyond the a propros subject matter, this lady can really play the Autoharp. This song sounds like something you'd find on a gramophone record.

Lauren Groff

#5. What about a warning system?" Heloise said.
"The entire encounter lasted less than five seconds, Hel. I doubt that even with your admirable ability to sprint in heels, you would have been able to get there in time.

Gina Damico

#6. You are my idea of perfection, Beatrix Heloise.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. Do you know, every yoga school in India is free?

Bikram Choudhury

#8. Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted.

Heloise

#9. Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in some measure compensate this loss by the satisfaction I shall find in your writing.

Heloise

#10. The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest ...

Heloise

#11. Tea seems to tenderize cheap cuts of beef. After cooking chuck, boiling beef and brisket (I even mixed rib eye, which is ever so cheap, and it's great) I have decided that the tannic acid in the tea is what tenderizes beef!

Heloise

#12. If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

Heloise D'Argenteuil

#13. We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.

Heloise

#14. When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.

Heloise

#15. What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart ...

Heloise

#16. We are much fonder of the pictures of those we love, when they are at a great distance, than when they are near to us.

Heloise D'Argenteuil

#17. I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.

Heloise

#18. It is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.

Heloise

#19. As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

Thales

#20. Ever tried putting a caramel candy in a cup of hot tea? It's excellent! Not only does it give a little different taste to the tea, but it takes the place of the sugar and cream which you ordinarily add.

Heloise

#21. It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.

Heloise

#22. Let me have a faithful account of all that concerns you; I would know everything, be it ever so unfortunate. Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter.

Heloise D'Argenteuil

#23. The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.

Heloise

#24. That's the worst thing you can do, Unk - remembering back," said Brackman. "That's what they put you in the hospital for in the first place - on account of you remembered too much.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#25. Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!

Heloise D'Argenteuil

#26. Only light comes out of darkness, she whispered.

Donna Grant

#27. Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.

Heloise

#28. The higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.

Heloise

#29. We are still a country where hard work and perseverance can earn you a better life ... Yet we are rightfully troubled that many of our people are still caught in what seems to be a pervasive, unending financial struggle ... every American deserves an equal opportunity to achieve success.

Marco Rubio

#30. As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#31. Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

Heloise

#32. That's something that seems to happen when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are put together, and yet we struggle to make sense of these things somehow. I'm not quite sure why that is; it's something about human nature, I guess.

Kurt Wagner