Quotes About Lizzie Borden

#1. The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.

Kenneth Tynan

#2. Consider me your rescuer, not your jailer," he said to Frankie, without looking at her. His gut told him that, on the criminal mastermind scale, this one landed closer to Tinker Bell than Lizzie Borden.

Roxanne Snopek

#3. The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

Andy Goldsworthy

#4. Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#5. When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#6. He talks about you...he thinks you're beautiful...

Richie Tankersley Cusick

#7. Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#8. I never eat any breakfast.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#9. I thought I would go out, and see if the air would make me feel any better.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#10. Here's the thing about luck ... you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

Alice Hoffman

#11. She told me she had a note, somebody was sick.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#12. I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#13. Heath had been there to help her, letting her draw from his strength. Did she have enough strength to sustain him in the same way?

Lisa Kleypas

#14. She said she was going out, and would get the dinner. That is the last I saw her, or said anything to her.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#15. I can't do anything in a minute.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#16. I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#17. I did not hear her go or come back, but I supposed she went.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#18. To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.

Haki R. Madhubuti

#19. I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#20. I was feeling well enough to eat the pears.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#21. Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#22. I don't know whether Mrs. Borden is out or in; I wish you would see if she is in her room.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#23. I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#24. I have been away a great deal in the daytime, occasionally at night.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#25. I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

H.L. Mencken

#26. I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#27. I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#28. I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#29. I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#30. My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#31. I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#32. Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#33. I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#34. We wasted little time wondering how anyone, even Lizzie, could nurse for five years a smoldering, mounting, murderous hate for anyone as uninteresting as Abby Borden ... we did, however, attach grave importance to Lizzie's 'peculiar spells.

Victoria Lincoln