Quotes About Theodora

#1. Theodora glared at me, but Mrs. Murphy Sallis gave me a brief smile and offered me her hand, which was as smooth and soft as old lettuce.

Lemony Snicket

#2. Duty and conscience were, for Theodora, attributes which belonged properly to Girl Scouts.

Shirley Jackson

#3. I purchased some clothes for you," Theodora said ... "I was given you measurements, so hopefully they fit. If they don't, you will have to either lose or gain weight or height.

Lemony Snicket

#4. I am proud of my heritage and have happily taken advantage of every opportunity to educate my teammates and Steeler Nation about American Samoa, both as a player and in the community, through the Troy and Theodora Polamalu Foundation Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.

Troy Polamalu

#5. Theodora usually found that her good intentions matured too late for practical results.

Edith Wharton

#6. Do not collect passion into the equation. It is a dangerous foe, Theodora, like keeping a lion in the garden. It might seem safe enough, but it might well destroy you. No, do not yearn for passion. Ask instead for contentment, happiness. Those are to be wished for.

Deanna Raybourn

#7. Where have you been, Theodora?," Mrs Goodman asked.
"Walking, Mother."
"And whom did you see?"
Mrs Goodman flung her grammar like a stone.
"I did not see a cat," said Theodora.
Mrs Goodman looked at her daughter, who giggled before she left the room.

Patrick White

#8. A woman of a certain age must learn to hear what suits her purpose," Theodora said with a naughty smile. "Old women and cats do as they please.

Jackie King

#9. Don't talk, Snicket," Theodora said. "Fools talk while wise people listen, so listen up and I'll tell you how we will solve this case sensibly and properly.

Lemony Snicket

#10. I felt like the Empress Theodora. Can I get more orifices? I thought. Is that what she meant in the Historia Arcana - not that three isn't enough, but that the three on offer aren't enough to sustain a marriage?

Nell Zink

#11. I don't like the younger sister,' Theodora said. 'First she stole her sister's lover, and then she tried to steal her sister's dishes.

Shirley Jackson

#12. For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.

Theodora

#13. Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

Theodora Goss

#14. Spectacular cases are usually simpler, and less interesting, than they initially appear.

Theodora Goss

#15. Sometimes thing are too good to be true.

Theodora

#16. For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

Theodora

#17. Fairy tales are another kind of Bible, for those who know how to read them.

Theodora Goss

#18. There is a proverb which says "As the soul is at three so it is at one hundred,

Yei Theodora Ozaki

#19. (Of course, some people decide to end contact with a family member because of an abusive situation. This decision can be a mature, lifesaving choice.)

Theodora Ross

#20. A lady might feel fear, but she must not give in to it, or so her governess had taught her.

Theodora Goss

#21. Let equal fire our souls inflame,
And equal zeal employ,
That we the glorious spring may know,
Whose streams appear'd so bright below.

Georg Friedrich Handel

#22. I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.

Theodora Goss

#23. Perhaps it's when you come to the realization that the point of life isn't to be rich, or secure, or even to be loved - to be any of the things that people usually think is the point. The point of life is to live as deeply as possible, to experience fully. And that can be done in so many ways.

Theodora Goss

#24. If you're a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

Theodora Goss

#25. The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.

Theodora Goss

#26. Oyin Honey Wash smells stupid good on you.

Theodora Taylor

#27. Ah, well, when you explain it like that, it seems obvious," said Mudge. "Of course, it always seems obvious once it's been explained.

Theodora Goss

#28. When you're a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing.

Theodora Goss

#29. Royalty is a fine burial shroud.

Theodora

#30. Only an idiot would bring an important letter out in the rain.

Theodora Goss

#31. I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.

Theodora

#32. She drifted, feather-like, in tenuous radiance ...
Her gown, it seemed a thing made out of mist,
As though the dewy air
Had gathered in a cloud about her form
To clothe a shape so fair
That nothing coarser could adorn it than
A layer of atmosphere.

Theodora Goss