Revels Quotes

#1. All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and revels, if only you will come back when spring comes again.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. He was ... at peace with the world, for it is not in the praise of others that the true artist revels, but in the knowledge that he has satisfied himself.

Tom Holt

#3. The enumeration of human values as five - Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence is not correct. They are all facets of the foundational humanness. They grow together; they are absence of Inner conflicts. How can one have peace when he revels in violence of speach and action?

Sathya Sai Baba

#4. So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.

Henry Vaughan

#5. An obsessed person knows there can never be intimacy if he is always trying to pay God back or work hard enough to be worthy. He revels in his role as child and friend of God.

Francis Chan

#6. A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!

Epes Sargent

#7. Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.

Leo Buscaglia

#8. And now I will tell of the revels that went on for three nights and two days in the brothel on West Seventy-sixth Street between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues.

E.L. Doctorow

#9. Daydreams of wealth or women must have given Carolo that faraway look which never left him; sad and silent, he contemplated huge bank balances and voluptuous revels.

Anthony Powell

#10. Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)

William Shakespeare

#11. It is the mind that creates our wealth, and this goes with us into exile, and in the harshest desert places it finds sufficient to nourish the body and revels in the enjoyment of its own goods.

Seneca.

#12. The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

James Geary

#13. I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.

Karl Pilkington

#14. Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.

Plato

#15. I know I'm supposed to be the new Mistress of Revels! But that doesn't mean I have pockets full of muffins!

Lisa Mantchev

#16. Faith revels in the liberating fact that only a terribly miniscule part of life lies within the constricted confines of my reach, and that I am graciously invited out to live in a place beyond my grasp.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. What Mr Blyth has been engaged in was not love, my dear Francis. It was romance, a thing to which Mr Blyth has been very prone; together with melodrama. Whatever made you think that melodrama makes Mr Blyth uncomfortable? He revels in it.

Dorothy Dunnett

#18. Nd the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation.

Michael Eric Dyson

#19. The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners ...

Natalie Goldberg

#20. Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips.

Ford Madox Ford

#21. Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all.

John Burroughs

#22. Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.

Washington Irving

#23. When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.

John Godfrey Saxe

#24. When the boys at school found out I had a potentially fatal peanut allergy, they used to hold me up against a wall and play Russian Roulette with a bag of Revels!

Milton Jones

#25. ... the world revels in its own filth and will make a laughing stock out of anyone who tries to clean it up

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#26. Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther or nearer in the woods, and if near a lake, the semihuman cry of the loons at their unearthly revels.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.

William Godwin

#28. Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.

John Milton

#29. Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

Mason Cooley

#30. The owl loves its nest in the ruins, The Huma revels in making kings, The falcon will not leave the King's hand, And the wagtail pleads weakness.2

Rory Stewart

#31. I have a nut allergy. When I was at school the other children used to make me play Russian roulette but force-feeding me a packet of Revels.

Milton Jones

#32. The Republican party is not inflamed, as some would fain have the country believe, against the South. Its borders are wide enough for all truly loyal men to find within them peace and repose from the din and discord of angry faction.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#33. I sedulously refrained from doing anything that would incite slaves to run away from their masters.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#34. I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#35. We are in the midst of an exciting canvass ... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#36. I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#37. I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which today animate them. They bear toward their former masters no revengeful thoughts, no hatreds, no animosities. They aim not to elevate themselves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow-citizens.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#38. The people of the North owe to the colored race a deep obligation that is no easy matter to fulfill.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#39. I got colored mechanics in the United States Navy Yard for the first time.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#40. During the canvass in the State of Mississippi, I traveled into different parts of that state, and this is the doctrine that I everywhere uttered: that while I was in favor of building up the colored race, I was not in favor of tearing down the white race.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#41. Have the colored people done anything to justify the prejudice against them that does exist in the hearts of so many white persons and, generally, of one great political party in this country? Have they done anything to justify it? No, sir.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#42. The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#43. The colored race saved to the noble women of New England and the middle States men on whom they lean today for security and safety. Many of my race, the representatives of these men on the field of battle, sleep in the countless graves of the South.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#44. While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education ... I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#45. I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#46. I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#47. While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.

Hiram Rhodes Revels