Top 33 Quotes About Lavinia
#1. Oh Lavinia, Lavinia, you are worth ten Camillas. And I never saw it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#2. Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.
Charles Dickens
#3. LAVINIA: He made me feel for the first time in my life that everything about love could be sweet and natural ... I have a right to love!
Eugene O'Neill
#4. We didn't think that," Jon said. "It might have escaped your attention, Lavinia, but you are not a terribly subtle person.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#5. Without war there are no heroes."
"What harm would that be?"
"Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#6. The Captain: A martyr, Lavinia, is a fool. Your death will prove nothing.
Lavinia: Then why kill me?
George Bernard Shaw
#7. LAVINIA: I love everything that grows simply
up toward the sun
everything that's straight and strong! I hate what's warped and twists and eats into itself and dies for a lifetime in shadow ...
Eugene O'Neill
#8. The whole younger generation looks to me like a sum that doesn't add up.' Lavinia
Ellen Glasgow
#10. Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity or self-dissatisfaction she saw as a social cruelty that was very nearly criminal.
Caroline Blackwood
#11. I have a hundred reasons to dislike this gentleman," Erica reminded herself aloud. "And a thousand reasons more not to go courting with any man."
Lavinia laughed at that. "Whenever has a woman's heart listened to her head?
Davis Bunn
#12. Bright fame, bright glory will crown Lavinia. But she brings her people war.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#13. LAVINIA: I want to feel love! Love is all beautiful! I never used to know that! I was a fool! We'll be married soon ... We'll make an island for ourselves on land and we'll have children and love them and teach them to love life so that they can never be possessed by hate and death!
Eugene O'Neill
#14. Nevertheless, he had offered her a home under his own roof, which Lavinia accepted with the alacrity of a woman who had spent the ten years of her married life in the town of Poughkeepsie.
Henry James
#15. LAVINIA: Oh Edward!
The point is, that since I've been away
I see that I've taken you much too seriously.
And now I can see how absurd you are.
EDWARD: That is a very serious conclusion to have arrived at in ... how many? ... thirty-two hours.
T. S. Eliot
#16. Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#19. In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.
Lavinia Milosovici
#21. I caught him by the collar and dumped him into the nearest bin.
"That's where people like YOU belong!" I spat at him as his legs wiggled in the air. "In the garbage!" - Chapter 2: Miserable Torture
Aishabella Sheikh
#23. If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway.
Lavinia Greenlaw
#24. When I broke my knee, no one cared how I was; they just wanted me to get better and come back to gymnastics to win more medals for their country.
Lavinia Agache
#26. This is a work of memory
facts have been altered. Names have been changed.
Lavinia Greenlaw
#28. We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice.
Lavinia Greenlaw
#30. We lay there, under the stars, the moonlight enveloping us like a letter, folded together to be forever united, skin and bone trained to get along.
Aishabella Sheikh
#31. Every woman deserves a wedding night. And what could be better than one that comes without a husband?
Lavinia Kent
#32. Keith traced my face, traced my hands and traced my body as the crickets chirped a love song and I lost myself in his eyes that stroked my soul and punctured my heart, like a poison arrow in a shooting star
Aishabella Sheikh
