Top 24 Quotes About Magdalen
#1. O Godhead of glory and anguish!
O Christ shone through Magdalen's tears!
Thy sons on the universe languish
In iron bands strong as the spheres;
With virtue Thy likeness we cover,
With priestcraft we mock at Thy power,
And the meanest on earth is a lover,
As vile as a flower.
Aleister Crowley
#2. She put the Trust into her sister's hand. Magdalen took it from her mechanically. "You!" she said, looking at her sister with the remembrance of all that she had vainly ventured, of all that she had vainly suffered, at St. Crux - "you have found it!
Wilkie Collins
#3. Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.
Benjamin Disraeli
#4. Weak or strong, everyone falls at least a thousand times throughout their life. It is in what they learn from their fall and how steady they become that you recognize the strongest of all." -Grandma (Magdalen)
Lydhia Marie
#5. Harry Mount hints at the possibility that I was admitted to Magdalen in 1960 because my father had been senior scholar there a quarter of a century earlier. I was, in fact, the winner of an open scholarship; Mr Mount should learn the difference between genetics and nepotism.
Michael Beloff
#6. At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.
Tim Hunt
#7. To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.
Edward Gibbon
#8. Knowledge, like money and muck (manure), serves us best when spread evenly.
Stuart Aken
#9. I like Roy Orbison's video for 'I Drove All Night' because it's so literal. It is just a man driving throughout the night. I like that silliness. To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour.
Richard Ayoade
#10. Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world - and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.
Diana Vreeland
#11. I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.
Paul Auster
#12. Puzzle pieces, people and their gifts seek to fit in
stay true to your self; don't cram or trim."
--glorious day
Valentine
#13. Mr Pett, receiving her cold glance squarely between the eyes, felt as if he were being disembowelled by a clumsy amateur.
P.G. Wodehouse
#14. Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.
Felix Rohatyn
#15. What can we not endure,
When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure?
Magdalen Nabb
#16. I had a hunger for things I knew realistically I didn't actually care for.
Tama Janowitz
#17. There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of them - you can read every new one that comes along, good or bad, and be caught up in the story all over again.
Robert Gottlieb
#19. My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
Harold Pinter
#20. Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance's employees and shareholders will keep it afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the Ambanis have become irrelevant.
Dhirubhai Ambani
#21. The deeper within that you are coming from, the higher the perspective you'll be able to have.
John De Ruiter
#22. It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced.
Fulton J. Sheen
#23. A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.
Magdalen Braden
#24. Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary.
Magdalen Nabb
