Top 100 Quotes About Josephine
#1. But still. It has to end sometime. Wars always do. Everything has to end,' said Josephine, eating another ginger biscuit and getting unexpectedly philosophical. 'Yeah. Things like human civilisation,' I said.
Sophia McDougall
#2. Aunt Josephine had been so careful to avoid anything that she thought might harm her, but harm had still come her way.
Lemony Snicket
#3. I am Josephine Darly, and I intend to live forever.
Tessa Gratton
#4. I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi.
Melina Marchetta
#5. Something occurred to me on the way. "Does your dad know you've got his his flask?" I asked Josephine.
"Yes, he's probably worked it out by now," Josephine said.
Sophia McDougall
#6. I was really into old musicals. When I was seven or eight, my mum and dad would be like, 'How does she know who Ginger Rogers is?' Then, one weekend, Josephine Baker popped up in a French film called 'Zouzou,' and I was so stunned because she looked like me.
Cush Jumbo
#7. I couldn't possibly love you any more than I already do. Josephine, my heart resides with you forevermore." He remembers the quote on the back of my mother's watch. The same quote my father said to my mother. My heart squeezes painfully and I swear I could die of contentment.
J.L. Mac
#8. You seem to find everything banal." "it's a new word whose correct use i have only lately learnt,' said josephine with dignity. 'i find it applies to nearly everything.
Evelyn Waugh
#9. Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit, you don't know how to dance, do you, Josephine? I didn't know how to dance. I didn't want anything to do with his biscuit.
Ruta Sepetys
#10. Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can't make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery
#11. Josephine wasn't much for praying . It had never done her any good.
Denise Hunter
#12. I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#13. gone from Josephine to Cinderella. Except, while Cinderella had evil stepsisters and one fairy godmother, I had Martin and fifteen bitchy birds flitting around me.
R.S. Grey
#14. Josephine caught my eye and gave me a signal we'd used for years to indicate that one of us had to leave. The signal was mouthing the words "I have to leave" and pointing at the door.
Lemony Snicket
#15. I'm safer with the Tailor and Pretty Will and every thief and cutthroat in the bend than I am with Miss Josephine Montfort of Gramecy Park.
Jennifer Donnelly
#16. An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#17. He liked me because I am short. I flatter myself. He did not dislike me. He liked no one except Josephine and he liked her the way he liked chicken.
Jeanette Winterson
#18. I will thank you not to be impertinent," said Aunt Josephine, using a word which here means "pointing out that I'm wrong, which annoys me".
Lemony Snicket
#19. You underestimate us, Josephine," Taylor smiled. "A few guards, chains, and a locked door can't keep a family apart.
Embee
#20. Mister hit Josephine with the palm of his hand across her left cheek and it was then she knew she would run.
Tara Conklin
#21. It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
LaToya Jackson
#22. Madame Tallien shared honors with Josephine Beauharnais in being mistress to Barras, an ex-nobleman and ex-terrorist whose appetite for beautiful women, beautiful young men, and money was the only wholesome trait in his character.
J. Christopher Herold
#23. She wrote her stories, and they were read and enjoyed - or so Lenore claimed - by many. Josephine enjoyed quiet society and music and books and gardening.
Elizabeth Hunter
#24. I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.
Jacqueline Susann
#25. If stalking you is thinking about you every night while I stroke my cock and cumming with the sweet name 'Josephine' on my lips, then yeah, I've been stalking. I've been stalking the fuck out of you since I moved back here.
Alexa Riley
#26. I wouldn't mind an original letter from Napoleon to Josephine - in the early days, his letters arrived torn to pieces because he was overwhelmed by his passion for her.
Kate Williams
#27. Wima and Josephine. Well okay then. Okay.
Janet Fitch
#28. And last," Ms. Baginski carried on. "My most precious possession, the thing I treasure above anything else in this world, that being my granddaughter, Josephine Diana Malone, I hereby bequeath to James Markham Spear.
Kristen Ashley
#29. Get off your high horse, Josephine, because if you fall it won't be pretty." I stuff my hands into my pocket and walk away. I didn't want to blow up at her, but she egged me on.
Heidi McLaughlin
#30. I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy, and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay home and knit like a poky old woman (Josephine)
Louisa May Alcott
#31. Before her, with sharp blue eyes and perfectly coiffed blond hair, was Josephine Marie Elizabeth Cavendish, Her Grace, the Duchess of Durham, widow of the fifth duke, and aunt to the Cavendish siblings.
One did not call her Josie. Amelia had asked.
Maya Rodale
#32. I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.
Isabel Sanford
#33. I live to make you smile, Josephine.
J.L. Mac
#34. O Josephine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has sat down by mistake.
Victor Hugo
#35. Alone on the timeless beach, Josephine Pellegrini finds herself disappointed by the end of the world.
Hannu Rajaniemi
#36. When you've had a near-death experience, your life is never the same. A divine fire is supernaturally transferred into your soul, to tell everyone about your encounter. This in itself, is a miracle. As such, I am on a mission to rid hell of its future recruits.
Josephine Akhagbeme
#40. The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#41. Love is being willing to become the villain so that the one you love can stay a hero.
Josephine Angelini
#42. My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs.
Josephine De La Baume
#43. It dawned on him that the loneliness of marriage, the thing Alice had so feared, starts out of love itself, which can never deliver on its promises.
Josephine Humphreys
#44. No matter how strong of a person you are, there's always someone who can make you weak.
Josephine
#45. I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.
Josephine Baker
#46. Be guided by the love of enjoyment, rather than the fear of making a mistake, when things are perfect, in a way, nothing has been learned.
Josephine Araldo
#47. The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot.
Josephine Baker
#48. Helen, beloved of the goddess of love, went downstairs to crawl into her empty bed as Lucas, the son of the sun, leaned back on his elbows and watched his father-god brighten the bare wooden planks of her widow's walk.
Josephine Angelini
#49. We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
#50. I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.
Josephine Baker
#51. All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.
Josephine Baker
#52. Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?
Josephine Baker
#53. The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
Josephine Baker
#56. Hector, if you get yourself killed again, when I take over Hades I'll give you a really long time-out in Tartarus,
Josephine Angelini
#57. The shape of his head, the set of his shoulders are a pattern she could recognize and love out of a crowd of shadows.
Josephine Humphreys
#58. I've always thought that was the lamest argument - that we need some people to be poor in order to remind the rest of us to be grateful. All that really means is that someone has to suffer poverty so other people can feel better about themselves. What a selfish way to look at the world.
Josephine Angelini
#59. You don't feel dead to me."
"That's all that matters," he said, turning his head to look at her. Worry darkened his eyes. "I know this isn't possible. What did you do, Helen?"
"I made you a world.
Josephine Angelini
#60. I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.
Josephine Baker
#62. I chose love - I chose you over everything that was offered to me.
Josephine Angelini
#63. I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.
Josephine Hart
#64. The test of your Christian Faith is to stand by the Truth of God's Word in the face of opposition without Compromise ... JOA
Josephine Akhagbeme
#65. [On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.
Josephine De Beauharnais
#66. I want to know what's wrong with loving someone for life? Even when they're dead? What exactly is wrong with that? Why should I put him away, out of my mind? Like he's out of fashion. Does no one love for ever any more? Is no one built for the long road?
Josephine Hart
#67. One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.
Josephine Baker
#68. Helen stared at him "How do you do that? How do you figure everything out so quickly?"
"You may be all-powerful, but nothing beats plain old logic." He smiled at her
Josephine Angelini
#69. Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying ... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.
Josephine Baker
#70. That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like a peepshow; with two-dimensional figures against a distant background.
Josephine Tey
#71. Doormats. It was true that actors had a perception, an understanding of human motive, that normal people lacked. It had nothing to do with intelligence, and very little to do with education.
Josephine Tey
#73. There was no room in his life for Marta, and none in her life for him; but it was a pity, all the same.
Josephine Tey
#74. It's a sauna in her," Lily complained. She flapped her hands, trying to wave a breeze into the robe Rowan had told her to wear to this afternoon's ritual instead of the silk slip. "What are we making today? Deep-fried witch?
Josephine Angelini
#77. Color" is skin-deep and not soul-deep. Quit making it soul-deep. All souls are mine saith the Lord. As the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is His. What matters is that, the soul who sins is the one who will die (ref. Ez. 18:4)
Josephine Akhagbeme
#78. There's only one life I want to take, and it was never yours. I came to kill the Tyrant.
Josephine Angelini
#80. When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.
Josephine Humphreys
#81. You saw me through a stained-glass window? How'd you pull that off'
'I could find someone as beautiful as you no matter where you hide. You're so radiant, I bet you even glow in the dark.
Josephine Angelini
#82. If some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.
Josephine Lawrence
#84. Lucas Delos," he said, holding out his hand.
"Don't you hate this kid?" Jerry asked Helen candidly as he shook the offered hand.
Josephine Angelini
#85. Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic.
Josephine Tey
#86. Was my sin basically one of untruthfulness? Or, more likely, one of cowardice? But the liar knows the truth. The coward knows his fear and runs away.
Josephine Hart
#87. Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
#90. What happened in 1603?" Grant asked, his mind still on Tyrrel. "We had the Scots tied to our tails for good." "Better than having them at our throats every five minutes.
Josephine Tey
#91. And if I was bewildered through those decades, totally bewildered, so was the country I came from. The majority, what was the phrase? 'Condemn utterly what is happening, this barbarity.' But that's all we did. Condemn. And march. But not often enough.
Josephine Hart
#94. One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.
Josephine Tey
#95. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Okay, would you like pizza?"
"I don't think you deserve my company but I feel sorry for you so I'll say yes."
"God help me," he said, half under his breath.
Melina Marchetta
#96. You have to know that your collaborators want you to make the movie that you want. Don't back down because you think it's nice to them. You need to have the film be the way that you want it.
Josephine Decker
#97. Your heart weeps a little bit when you have to say goodbye to a crew you spend two months with, but when it comes to the part, when you live so close to someone for two months, it kind of fades away and then you see her again on screen later on.
Josephine De La Baume
#98. Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.
Josephine Tey
#99. Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think?
Josephine Tey
#100. I read Butterfly's Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice - and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.
Josephine Humphreys
