Quotes About Rosamond

#1. Rosamond, what are you doing here?"
"You invited me for the weekend, don't you remember?"
"But how could you be so cruelly literal, darling?

Stephen Tennant

#2. Better destroy the body than the soul.'" ~Rosamond

Louisa May Alcott

#3. (Every nerve and muscle in Rosamond was adjusted to the consciousness that she was being looked at. She was by nature an actress of parts that entered into her physique: she even acted her own character, and so well, that she did not know it to be precisely her own.)

George Eliot

#4. Ah, if I could only feel assured that it was right and not a blind impulse of a weak woman's heart!'" ~Rosamond

Louisa May Alcott

#5. Ev'ry Voice and Sing" - words by James Weldon Johnson and music by J. Rosamond Johnson. Copyright by Edward B. Marks Music Corporation. Used by permission.

Maya Angelou

#6. Rosamond being one of those women who live much in the idea that each man they meet would have preferred them if the preference had not been hopeless.

George Eliot

#7. In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

George Eliot

#8. One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Rosamond Lehmann

#9. It'll all come right. Because, of course, I do believe...I believe - I believe in everything...sun, moon, stars, in seasons - trees, flowers - people, music, life...yes, in life.

Rosamond Lehmann

#10. The fact is, one shouldn't go to parties when one is in love. It makes one act aloof and superior and everyone distrusts you.

Rosamond Lehmann

#11. Still, now and then they seemed to be holding behind them the surprising, the magic vistas of childhood - the sudden snow at night, whirling and furring without sound against the window; the full moon and all its shadows on the lawn; the Christmas sleigh and reindeer in the sky.

Rosamond Lehmann

#12. Isn't it amazing how we always have to put our mark on things? And how, from the natural world, we find evidence over and over again that reminds us, not so much of the birds, but of our own stories and our own kinds of art?

Rosamond Purcell

#13. It is a cliche that human beings are fascinated by size
mountain peaks, high buildings, and whales. We are also amazed by miniatures
a flea on a mouse, a flea on a trapeze, the Last Supper carved on the head of a pin.

Rosamond Purcell

#14. A woman in love never takes advice.

Rosamond Marshall

#15. People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Storytelling, which is the basis of the novel, has always existed and always will.

Rosamond Lehmann

#16. It's the thought that counts.

Rosamond Lehmann

#17. But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

Rosamond Lehmann

#18. One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

Rosamond Lehmann

#19. Convention is another name for the habits of society.

Rosamond Lehmann

#20. One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.

Rosamond Lehmann

#21. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

Rosamond Lehmann

#22. I want to do something absolutely different, or perhaps nothing at all: just stay where I am, in my home, and absorb each hour, each day, and be alone; and read and think; and walk about the garden in the night; and wait, wait...

Rosamond Lehmann

#23. Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

Rosamond Lehmann

#24. Bernier turned in her chair, smiled, and shook their hands. Dana's heart skipped a beat as she stood inches away from one of New York's most glamorous and adored women.

Lynn Steward

#25. When two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

Rosamond Lehmann

#26. [On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

Rosamond Lehmann

#27. Yes, we are sure of it. These walls enclose a world. Here is continuity spinning a web from room to room, from year to year. It is safe in this house.

Rosamond Lehmann

#28. There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.

Rosamond Marshall

#29. In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.

Rosamond Lehmann

#30. Anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

Rosamond Lehmann

#31. Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar.

Rosamond Marshall

#32. How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

Rosamond Lehmann

#33. You really oughta warn a guy when you're going all glamorous on him, so he'd be prepared.

Rosamond Du Jardin