Smithfield Quotes

#1. When a burning is announced, the taverns off Smithfield Square order extra barrels of ale, but when the person to be executed is a woman and one of noble birth, the ale comes by the cartload.

Nancy Bilyeau

#2. FALSTAFF
Where's Bardolph?
Page
He's gone into Smithfield to buy your worship a horse.
FALSTAFF
I bought him in Paul's, and he'll buy me a horse in
Smithfield: an' I could get me but a wife in the
stews, I were manned, horsed, and wived.

William Shakespeare

#3. I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

John F. Kerry

#4. Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People's sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.

Low Thia Khiang

#5. It was so much easier to hate them, than to hate myself." My

Jodi Picoult

#6. Do not let adversity break you. Think of it as a learning experience that will make you stronger.

Gloria Allred

#7. The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

Darin Strauss

#8. Anna Katherine Green wrote about a female inquiry agent, and there were a scattering of female investigators in the 1970s, authored by men, who just didn't ring true. So I thought, 'Well, there's an opening here for something.'

Marcia Muller

#9. Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Cyril Connolly

#10. Addie was warm and radiant next to me, making up half of us. But I - I was Eva, Eva, Eva, all the way through.

Kat Zhang

#11. Strand of auburn hair out of her face and tried smoothing it back into the knot at the base of her neck. Yes, this is exactly what I would want for my baby shower ... if I ever get to have one. A stabbing pain entered her heart before crisscrossing its way through

Katie Ashley

#12. Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know

John Gardner