Quotes About The Pardoner

#1. The only really detestable character in Chaucer's company of Canterbury pilgrims is the Pardoner with his stringy locks, his eunuch's hairless skin, his glaring eyes like a hare's, and his brazen acknowledgment of the tricks and deceits of his trade.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. Women are much stronger than men. When a woman says enough is enough, which means enough is enough. Man will always lie at her feet in the hope of return. I was lying. And somehow happy.

Mickey Rourke

#3. Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

Jupiter Hammon

#4. I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.

Nellie McKay

#5. The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.

Yukio Mishima

#6. I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

Antonia Thomas

#7. In his fighting heart, there was no fear.

Wilson Rawls

#8. People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

Samuel Johnson

#9. The bigger the sin, the rarer and more expensive the bird that is needed to erase it. Is that how the bird pardoner conducts his business? A sparrow for a small deception, but a paradise flycatcher and a monal pheasant for allowing a doubt about His existence to enter the mind.

Nadeem Aslam

#10. The true forgiver will always look into your eyes.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#11. You can't reach your potential without haters.

Grant Cardone

#12. Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].

A.S. Byatt

#13. We've made tremendous strides and changes in the City of New York since 1994.

Joe Lhota

#14. I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

Whitfield Diffie

#15. SF's NO GOOD!
They bellow 'til we're deaf
But =this= is good
Well, then, it's not SF!

Kingsley Amis