Top 100 Quotes About Shan
#2. There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
Robert Frost
#3. Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.
Terry Pratchett
#5. All the people in the Kuo-ch'ing monastery They say, "Han-shan is an idiot." "Am I really an idiot:" I reflect. But my reflections fail to solve the question: for I myself do not know who the self is, And how can others know who I am?
Hanshan
#6. And you think he'll tell?" Matt asked. "We will make him tell us." Han Shan-tung muttered the words casually, but there was something about the way he spoke that made the skin crawl.
Anthony Horowitz
#7. I shan't take advantage,' Lucius promised seriously. 'And she can't be forced into a marriage, of course. It is a new century. Unfortunately. But I am afraid that I am compelled to pursue this courtship until Antanasia realizes her place at my side. As she will.'
'I will not.
Beth Fantaskey
#8. And I'll look back at him because I shan't be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about all music I've ever loved, and every time I've been happy.
Jean Rhys
#9. One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#10. I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash.
Louisa May Alcott
#11. Sometimes I get a funny feeling inside me that I shan't be here very long,
and I'm not talking in terms of things like success.
It frightens me sometimes
Marc Bolan
#12. The feeling often comes over me that I am not at all remarkable; it is fun to plan a career, but in all probability I shan't turn out a bit different from any other ordinary person.
Jean Webster
#13. I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices
Virginia Woolf
#14. We Shan't Save All We Would Like To, But We Shall Save A Great Deal More Than If We Had Never Tried.
Peter Scott
#15. He has shamed me, and he'll kill me, but he shan't humble me.
Norah Lofts
#16. And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.
C.S. Lewis
#17. Why shan't I cheat when every girl has a different taste?
M.F. Moonzajer
#18. Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.
Russell Brand
#19. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.
Vita Sackville-West
#20. ... And now we shan't be parted no more, and that's finished.
E. M. Forster
#21. Maybe it will go away,' said Lucy.
'It'll be worse if it does,' said Edmund, 'because then we shan't know where it is. If there is a wasp in the room I like to be able to see it.
C.S. Lewis
#22. Do you realize a fraction of the awful things you have let me in for? How on earth am I to remember whether I go in before the chef or after the footman? I shan't have a peaceful minute while I'm in this place.
P.G. Wodehouse
#23. Oh, fine, Eleanor thought. The children of hell shan't go hungry on my watch.
Rainbow Rowell
#24. I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.
Libba Bray
#25. The more one understands the world ... the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood. Dakpo to Shan
Eliot Pattison
#26. There is a certain amount which I shan't mention publicly," Elizabeth said. "Things about Lucia which I should never dream of stating openly."
"Those are just the ones I should like to hear about most," said Diva. "Just a few little titbits.
E.F. Benson
#27. When I die," said dear and whimsical old Doctor Pycroft, "I shall have a bell hung on my head-stone, with an inscription asking the compassionate passer-by to ring it long and loud. And I shan't get up.
Reginald L. Hine
#29. It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.
Nevil Shute
#30. As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.
Bruce Chatwin
#31. Knock her dead, my man."
"Oh no." Xcor shook his head."That shan't be necessary. This one I like.
J.R. Ward
#32. We shall have to stay the night here,' he said, as if preparing to spend the night at an inn, and he proceeded to unfasten the collar-straps. The buckles came undone.
'But shan't we be frozen?' remarked Vasili Andreevich.
'Well, if we are we can't help it.' said Nikita.
Leo Tolstoy
#33. I shan't ask you how you do, ma'am: to enquire after a lady's health implies that she is not in her best looks. Besides, I can see that you are in high bloom.
Georgette Heyer
#34. I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
Henri Matisse
#35. Thanks for saving me back there larten
errmm thats mr crepsley to you - darren shan and larten creplsley - the vampires assistant
Darren Shan
#36. Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I shan't refer to you at all, and there's nothing for you to get upset about. There's the deal.'
Richard Griffiths
#37. In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!
Jasmine Guinness
#38. a couple of our buddies from Le Pavilion had opened restaurants in the Catskills around Shan-daken and Hunter Mountain and spoke highly of the area, so Jean-Claude and I, along with a few other friends, rented a place there to use as a weekend retreat.
Jacques Pepin
#39. Take my advice, my dear Mr Walton, and don't make too much of your poor, or they'll soon be too much for you to manage. - Come, Pet: it's time to go home to lunch. - And for the surplice, take your own way and wear it. I shan't say anything more about it.
George MacDonald
#40. We shan't have rain, but we shall have darkness, so let us hurry on. The darkness last night was appalling.
E. M. Forster
#41. I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.
Edith Wharton
#42. But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
#43. I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.
Elizabeth Goudge
#45. Shan't I take that anshient circus tent?" said he, pintin' to my umbreller, "and lock it up in the safe?
Various
#46. Those ruffians, the Gods, shan't have it all their own way,
her notion being that the Gods, who never lost a chance of hurting, thwarting and spoiling human lives were seriously put out if, all the same, you behaved like a lady.
Virginia Woolf
#47. If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued."
"If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.
William Golding
#48. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late, but it's the first thing I think of when I wake, and the last thing I think of before I fall asleep, even if J. is in my bed. She should understand, the artist lives in two worlds.
David Mitchell
#49. There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.
John Keats
#50. However, although you might think this is the time of year to take some time off, you must never transgress one of the allotment rules: 'Thou shan't go on holiday in summer!
Mitchell Beazley
#51. There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'.
Marcel Proust
#52. God is British to the bone, and every fellow here knows it. You can't exploit him to save yourself, you blaspheming cadaverous-prig; you disgusting shambles of porcelain-skin, unwholesome-fat and puny-bones. Your blatant disregard for God's word shan't earn you any favours here!
Joss Sheldon
#53. It's like a sealed, forgotten chamber in me; I shan't feel complete until I've discovered its entrance.'
'Sounds like a tomb. Aren't you afraid of what you'll find in there?'
'It's a library; only the stupid and the evil are afraid of those.
Iain Banks
#54. Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#55. Oh, yes. In my future, a man will control all my possessions if I marry him, I shan't be allowed to vote, and I won't be given the opportunity to earn a living by any means except on my back - but by all means, the most dire threat I face is freckles.
Courtney Milan
#56. I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
Margaret Thatcher
#57. I don't write cheques anymore because I end up signing them "with love, shan rukh"
Shahrukh Khan
#58. Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies ...
Plato
#59. Act, implores the Ghost of Future Regret. I shan't give you another chance.
David Mitchell
#60. I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.
Virginia Woolf
#61. She paused a moment.
"Pepino, shall I tell all our dear friends our little secret?" she said. "If you say 'no,' I shan't. But, please, Pepino--"
Pepino, however, had been instructed to say 'yes,' and accordingly did so.
E.F. Benson
#62. Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.
Lord Chesterfield
#63. I am still raw.
I say I may be back.
You know what lies are for.
Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.
Sylvia Plath
#64. Are you happy?' he repeated quietly.
...
'Wouldn't you like to know?'
...
'Yes, or I would not ask. But apparently the child has returned and I shan't have my answer.' He moved away.
She wanted to shout that she was not a child but a woman, and the woman hurt.
Katharine Ashe
#65. I shall sustain a massive erection, that's what, and I shan't be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself.
Stephen Fry
#66. You can and you can't - You shall and you shan't - You will and you won't - And you will be damned if you do - And you will be damned if you don't.
Lorenzo Dow
#67.
Even losing you (a joking voice, a gesture/ I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident/ the art of losing's not too hard to master/ though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
Elizabeth Bishop
#68. When men see Han-shan
They all say he's crazy
And not much to look at -
Dressed in rags and hides.
They don't get what I say
And I don't talk their language.
All I can say to those I meet:
Try and make it to Cold Mountain.
Gary Snyder
#70. Alas, for all my knowledge and my skill, The world's mysterious meaning mocks me still, And yet I shan't persuade myself that I Must bow before a supernatural will.
James K. Morrow
#71. I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires.
Jamie Waylett
#72. That will just do for me, you know. I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever I open my mouth, shan't I?
Jane Austen
#73. The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.
David Burnett
#74. The man was absolutely beautiful. Vampire. Warrior. Whatever Shan Quesada was all man.
Sara Humphreys
#75. I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
Andre Gide
#76. Now, if you want me to get out of the world, you had better get the women votin' soon. I shan't go till I can do that.
Sojourner Truth
#77. I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'. I would try to find a way to say in my life, to reply, 'I shan't do that, mother.' That was so far away from my barrio world.
Sandra Cisneros
#78. I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.
Darren Shan
#79. Death is not the end. It is a midway state.
Darren Shan
#80. Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.
Darren Shan
#81. The secret to success is to stop when you're ahead.
Darren Shan
#82. Please Lady ... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish."
"You most certainly were."
"You are cruel, Evanna.
Darren Shan
#84. Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten - light's no good for creatures of the night.
Darren Shan
#86. Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.
Darren Shan
#87. The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch.
- Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)
Darren Shan
#88. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
- Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)
Darren Shan
#89. When I get out of the rickshaw I walk slowly towards the school building, taking small steps. All around me girls are running: in the morning the young are as noisy as a flock of sparrows.
Shan Sa
#90. Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.
Darren Shan
#91. But when Tel Hasani wasn't looking, he cast a worried eye over the snake, just incase there were any family resemblances.
Darren Shan
#92. It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.
Darren Shan
#93. I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.
Shan Sa
#94. The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying
Darren Shan
#95. A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.
Shan Sa
#96. They got so accustomed to the false alarms that when she did eventually die, they did not realize it, and she lay there twenty minutes, serene in my embrace, smiling blankly at me.
Darren Shan
#97. Life is an infernal loop where the day before yesterday has merged with today, and yesterday has been jettisoned. We think we are moving forward in time, but we are always prisoners of the past.
Shan Sa
#98. Too easily impressed," Evanna tutted, resuming her former appearance. "You shouldn't judge by what's on the outside. Only a fool falls for a pretty face. Are you fools?
Darren Shan
#100. I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green
head of hair like mine?
Darren Shan
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